Mental Health Services: Finance
(asked on 2nd April 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 27 March 2025, HCWS562, on Mental Health: Expected Spend for 2025-26, what estimate he has made of the total cost of mental health spending not included in that statement.
The following table shows the actual expenditure for 2023/24 and expected expenditure for 2024/25 for prescribing for mental health, mental health within NHS Continuing Healthcare and national mental health capital programmes:
| 2023/24 actual expenditure (£ million) | 2024/25 expected expenditure (£ million) |
Prescribing for mental health | 449 | 472 |
NHS Continuing Healthcare | 396 | 438 |
Eradication of mental health dormitories (capital) | 160 | 70 |
Mental health urgent and emergency care (capital) | 46 | Not yet available |
Source: NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care
Note: Spend on training new mental health staff, capital spend on mental health facilities under the Hospital Upgrades Programme and any local capital schemes is not separately identifiable.