Health Services: Finance

(asked on 6th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding her Department has provided for (a) mental health services (i) for children and young people and (ii) in total and (b) all NHS services in each financial year since 2019-20.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 14th December 2023

It is for individual local commissioners to allocate funding to mental health services to meet the needs of their local populations and this information is not collected centrally. Integrated care boards are expected to continue to meet the Mental Health Investment Standard by increasing their investment in mental health services in line with their overall increase in funding for the year.

The following table shows the actual expenditure on mental health services for the period 2019/20 to 2022/23:

Year

Mental health spend for children and young people, excluding learning disabilities and eating disorders (£ billion)

Total mental health spend (£ billion)

2019/20

0.79

13.32

2020/21

0.88

14.31

2021/22

0.92

14.93

2022/23

1.04

15.97

Source: NHS Mental Health Dashboard

Note: Total actual mental health spend reported here includes spending on learning disabilities and dementia, which is not included in the mental health investment standard or the baseline spend for the commitment in the NHS Long Term Plan to increase mental health spending by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24.

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