Mental Health Services: Expenditure
(asked on 23rd June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by (a) how much and (b) what percentage expenditure on NHS mental health services in England increased by in each year since 2010.
The available information is shown in the following table and includes total spend on mental health services, including learning disabilities and dementia.
Year | England £ million | Year on year increase £ million | Year on year increase % |
2015/16 | 10,978.9 | - | - |
2016/17 | 11,601.9 | 623.0 | 5.7 |
2017/18 | 11,976.0 | 374.1 | 3.2 |
2018/19 | 12,513.2 | 537.2 | 4.5 |
2019/20 | not yet available | - | - |
Source: NHS Mental Health Dashboard, NHS England
The Department and the National Health Service do not hold financial data at a sufficiently granular level to provide the information requested prior to 2015/16.