Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS has spent on (a) anti-depressant drugs and (b) mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy in each year for which data is available.
Information on how much the National Health Service has spent on antidepressant drugs is not collected in the format requested.
Information on expenditure on mindfulness-based therapies provided through NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services is not separately identifiable and cannot be provided.