Mental Health Services: Expenditure
(asked on 24th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of expenditure by his Department on the NHS was spent on mental health services in each of the last 10 years.
The information available is in the following table. Information on National Health Service mental health expenditure is not available prior to the introduction of the mental health investment standard from 2015-16. Before the introduction of the mental health investment standard, the NHS was not required to report mental health spend separately.
Year | Total Departmental expenditure (£ billions) | NHS mental health expenditure (£ billions) | Mental health expenditure as a percentage of total Departmental expenditure % |
2010-11 | 100.4 | n/a | - |
2011-12 | 102.8 | n/a | - |
2012-13 | 105.2 | n/a | - |
2013-14 | 109.8 | n/a | - |
2014-15 | 113.3 | n/a | - |
2015-16 | 117.2 | 10.9 | 9.3 |
2016-17 | 120.6 | 11.6 | 9.6 |
2017-18 | 125.2 | 11.9 | 9.5 |
2018-19 | 130.4 | 12.11 | 9.3 |
Source: Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard
Note:
1Planned spend. Actual spend is not yet available.