Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) total spending was in 2020-21 and (b) forecast spending is for 2021-2 for (i) NHS England, (ii) NHS mental health services for all age groups and (iii) NHS children and young people’s mental health services.
Information on NHS England and NHS Improvement and clinical commissioning group spending (CCG) spending is shown in the following table. Expenditure on Tier 4 and other children and young people’s mental health services commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement is not identified separately. Full expenditure data for 2020/21 and planned expenditure for 2021/22 is not yet available.
Year | CCG spend on children and young people’s mental health1 £ million | Total CCG spend on mental health2 £ million | NHS England and NHS Improvement specialised commissioning spend on mental health £ million | Total NHS spend on mental health £ million |
2015/16 | n/a | £9,148.3 | £1,830.6 | £10,978.9 |
2016/17 | n/a | £9,722.8 | £1,879.1 | £11,601.9 |
2017/18 | £687.2 | £10,079.6 | £1,896.4 | £11,976.0 |
2018/19 | £753.3 | £10,559.0 | £1,954.2 | £12,513.2 |
2019/20 | £841.1 | £11,267.8 | £2,057.0 | £13,324.8 |
Source: NHS Mental Health Dashboard, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Notes:
1 excluding learning disabilities
2 including learning disabilities and dementia