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 data his Department holds on how much funding has been spent on (a) prescribing for mental health, (b) continuing healthcare and (c) routine spend by NHS England on training new mental health staff in the latest period for which data is available.
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.