Mental Health Services: Children
(asked on 20th February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much funding they have committed to child mental health services in the current financial year; and how much funding they provided in each of the last three years.
The following table shows information about funding for children and young people’s mental health services for 2019/20 to 2021/22. The last three years for which complete information is available can be found at the NHS mental health dashboard in an online only format. Also included is planned spend for 2022/23, according to the quarter two, 2022/23 National Health Service mental health dashboard.
Year | Mental Health clinical commissioning group spend - excluding learning disabilities and eating disorders (£ million) | Mental Health clinical commissioning group spend - eating disorders (£ million) | Total spend (£ million) |
2019/20 | 791.4 | 50.0 | 841.4 |
2020/21 | 880.8 | 57.5 | 938.3 |
2021/22 | 922.0 | 72.8 | 994.8 |
2022/23 (planned) | 998.0 | 83.5 | 1,081.5 |
Source: NHS England