Mental Health Services
(asked on 7th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies in each financial year from 2010 to 2022.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the total amount spent by integrated care boards and NHS England on delivery of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), now known as NHS Talking Therapies, for each financial year from 2016/17 to 2021/22:
Financial year | Total cost of delivering IAPT services (£’000) |
2016/17 | 419,430 |
2017/18 | 441,342 |
2018/19 | 518,590 |
2019/20 | 593,148 |
2020/21 | 691,264 |
2021/22 | 776,159 |
Source: NHS England
Note: Data prior to 2016/17 is not available.