Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
(asked on 10th December 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding they have provided to children and adolescent mental health services in each year since 2010.
The following table shows expenditure on children and young people’s mental health services from 2013/14 to 2017/18. Information on expenditure for 2012-13 and earlier is not available.
| 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Clinical commissioning group spend | N/A | N/A | £516 million | £619 million | £687 million |
Specialised commissioning spend | £252 million | £260 million | £319 million | £342 million | £361 million |
Total spend | N/A | N/A | £836 million | £961 million | £1,048 million |
Source: NHS England
The 2019 Budget confirmed that the National Health Service will continue to increase mental health investment, by at least £2 billion a year in real terms by 2023/24.