Mental Health Services: Expenditure

(asked on 30th August 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1576 on Mental Health Services: Finance, what the total planned expenditure for mental health services was in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each year since 2015-16.


Answered by
Stephen Kinnock Portrait
Stephen Kinnock
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 9th September 2024

The following table shows the planned and real expenditure for National Health Service mental health services, including learning disabilities and dementia, each year since 2016/17, as the information for 2015/16 is not available:

Year

Planned expenditure in cash terms

Planned expenditure in real terms

2016/17

£9,490,700,000

£11,983,200,000

2017/18

£11,860,000,000

£14,743,300,000

2018/19

£12,154,900,000

£14,797,600,000

2019/20

£13,055,400,000

£15,527,500,000

2020/21

£14,024,300,000

£15,817,800,000

2021/22

£15,007,700,000

£17,066,900,000

2022/23

£15,555,100,000

£16,572,400,000

2023/24

£16,814,400,000

£16,814,400,00

Source: the NHS mental health dashboard, published by NHS England, and available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-mental-health-dashboard/.

Note: the planned expenditure in real terms is at 2023/24 monetary value.

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