Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the planned expenditure on mental health services in the NHS is in each year until 2020-21 expressed in 2016-17 prices.

In 2016/17 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and NHS England’s specialised commissioning spend on mental health increased to £11.6 billion from the previous year (7.3% increase for CCGs and specialised commissioning, 8.2% for CCGs).

Planned spend for CCGs and NHS England specialised commissioning is £11.8 billion in 2017/18 (2.3% increase for CCGs and Specialised, 2.7% for CCGs) and £12.0 billion in 2018/19 (2.1% increase for CCGs and Specialised, 2.5% for CCGs).

This represents £11.6 billion in 2017/18 and £11.7 billion in 2018/19 expressed in 2016/17 ‘prices’. 2017/18 and 2018/19 are subject to validation as part of the financial planning process.