Mental Health Services: Finance

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered am ar 31 Gorffennaf 2024.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Richard Holden Richard Holden Ceidwadwyr, Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding the NHS allocated to mental health services in (a) cash terms and (b) adjusted for inflation in the (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2023-24 financial year.

Photo of Stephen Kinnock Stephen Kinnock Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The information requested is not available for 2009/10, as National Health Service expenditure on mental health services was not separately identified prior to 2015/16. The total planned spend on mental health for 2023/24, including learning disabilities and dementia, was £16,814,000,000. The final figures for 2023/24 are not yet available, and will be published through the NHS mental health dashboard, which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-mental-health-dashboard/

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