Armed Forces: Mental Health Services

(asked on 18th March 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the annual budget for the Military Mental Health Helpline was in each financial year since 2019-20.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 25th March 2024

The requested information is provided in the following tables:

Number of phone calls made to the Military Mental Health Helpline in each year since 2019

Year

Total Phone Calls

2024 (Jan – Feb)

182

2023

1,220

2022

1,153

2021

888

2020

240

2019

453

Annual budget for the Military Mental Health Helpline in each Financial Year (FY) since 2019-20

Year (FY)

Annual Budget*

2023-24

£137,666

2022-23

£56,621.16

2021-22

£30,600

2020-21

£30,600

2019-20

£30,600

* Exclusive of VAT

Reticulating Splines