Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's expenditure was on mental health services in 2019; and what estimate he has made of his Department's projected spend for mental health services in 2021.

This information is only available by financial year, not calendar year. Details of expenditure on National Health Service mental health services are published by NHS England and NHS Improvement through the NHS Mental Health Dashboard which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/

Final outturn figures for 2019/20 and planned expenditure figures for 2020/21 are not yet available.

Planned expenditure on mental health services for 2019/20 by clinical commissioning groups and NHS England and NHS Improvement specialised commissioning was £13,055 million.