Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on the treatment of mental illness in children and young people in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14.

Children and young people with mental health problems are provided with treatment by a wide range of services and organisations and in a variety of settings. The figures below show what is spent on child and adolescent mental health services but are not representative of all spending on treating mental health problems in children and young people. The figures outline the aggregated primary care trust (PCT) spend on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in England since 2010. The figures outline what PCTs have spent but do not indicate the amount of funding provided by the Department of Health. The figures in the table have been rounded to the nearest £million.

However, the figures do not include:

- spend by local authorities, including children’s services and schools’ expenditure on early intervention or emotional resilience programmes;

- £54 million invested by the Department over the four years from 2011-12 to 2014-15 in the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme; and

- The £150 million investment over the next five years for NHS England in child and adolescent mental health services including services for the treatment of eating disorders, announced in the Autumn Statement.