Mental Health Services: Young People
(asked on 10th December 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was allocated from the public purse to mental health services for young people in each year from 2010 to 2018.
The following table shows the expenditure on children and young people’s mental health services from 2013/14 to 2017/18. Information on expenditure for 2012-13 and earlier is not available.
| 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Clinical commissioning group spend | N/A | N/A | £516 million | £619 million | £687 million |
Specialised commissioning spend | £252 million | £260 million | £319 million | £342 million | £361 million |
Total spend | N/A | N/A | £836 million | £961 million | £1,048 million |
Source: NHS England
The 2019 Budget confirmed that the National Health Service will continue to increase mental health investment, by at least £2 billion a year in real terms by 2023/24.