Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 31 July 2024.
Richard Holden
Conservative, Basildon and Billericay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding the NHS allocated to mental health services in (a) cash terms and (b) adjusted for inflation in the (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2023-24 financial year.
Stephen Kinnock
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not available for 2009/10, as National Health Service expenditure on mental health services was not separately identified prior to 2015/16. The total planned spend on mental health for 2023/24, including learning disabilities and dementia, was £16,814,000,000. The final figures for 2023/24 are not yet available, and will be published through the NHS mental health dashboard, which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-mental-health-dashboard/
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