Mental Health Services: Expenditure
(asked on 30th August 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1576 on Mental Health Services: Finance, what the total planned expenditure for mental health services was in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each year since 2015-16.
The following table shows the planned and real expenditure for National Health Service mental health services, including learning disabilities and dementia, each year since 2016/17, as the information for 2015/16 is not available:
Year | Planned expenditure in cash terms | Planned expenditure in real terms |
2016/17 | £9,490,700,000 | £11,983,200,000 |
2017/18 | £11,860,000,000 | £14,743,300,000 |
2018/19 | £12,154,900,000 | £14,797,600,000 |
2019/20 | £13,055,400,000 | £15,527,500,000 |
2020/21 | £14,024,300,000 | £15,817,800,000 |
2021/22 | £15,007,700,000 | £17,066,900,000 |
2022/23 | £15,555,100,000 | £16,572,400,000 |
2023/24 | £16,814,400,000 | £16,814,400,00 |
Source: the NHS mental health dashboard, published by NHS England, and available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-mental-health-dashboard/.
Note: the planned expenditure in real terms is at 2023/24 monetary value.