Mental Health Services: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of compliance with the Mental Health Investment Standard by ICBs in each of the last four years.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows the number of integrated care boards (ICBs), formerly clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), meeting the Mental Health Investment Standard, meaning that their investment in mental health services increased in line with their overall increase in funding for the year, from 2020/21 to 2024/25:
Year | Number of CCGs/ICBs meeting the Mental Health Investment Standard |
2020/21 | 135 out of 135 CCGs |
2021/22 | 106 out of 106 CCGs |
2022/23 | 41 out of 42 ICBs |
2023/24 | 42 out of 42 ICBs |
2024/25 | Information not yet available |
Source: NHS Mental Health Dashboard, NHS England
Note: between 2020/21 and 2021/22 there was a methodology change in how ICB/CCG base allocation was calculated.
The calculation of the Mental Health Investment Standard does not include spend on learning disabilities, autism, dementia, and specialised commissioning.
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