Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse has been of employing mental health staff in (a) each year since 2009-10 and (b) 2020-21.
Mental health staff are employed in wide range of settings including mental health trusts, acute trusts, community health services and general practitioner practices and this information is not collected centrally at this level of detail.