Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
(asked on 5th February 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of NHS expenditure on mental health services was spent on children and young people’s mental health services in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 13th February 2024
National Health Service mental health spend from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 totaled £12.7 billion. As a proportion of total recurrent NHS mandate spend of £142.4 billion, this was 8.9%. Of that mental health spend, £1.9 billion or 15% was spent on children and young people’s mental health services, including mental health support teams in schools.