Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of real terms changes to NHS mental health funding per year from 2009-10 to date in (a) percentage and (b) cash terms.
The Department does not hold the requested breakdown of funding. How the National Health Service budget is allocated to mental health services will depend on the commissioning decisions of individual commissioner organisations.
Since 2018/19, the NHS in England has met its commitment that the increase in local funding for mental health (excluding learning disabilities and dementia) is at least in line with the overall increase in the money available to them - the mental health investment standard.