Mental Health Services: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 27 March 2025, HCWS562, on Mental Health: Expected Spend for 2025-26, what estimate he has made of the total cost of mental health spending not included in that statement.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows the actual expenditure for 2023/24 and expected expenditure for 2024/25 for prescribing for mental health, mental health within NHS Continuing Healthcare and national mental health capital programmes:
| 2023/24 actual expenditure (£ million) | 2024/25 expected expenditure (£ million) |
Prescribing for mental health | 449 | 472 |
NHS Continuing Healthcare | 396 | 438 |
Eradication of mental health dormitories (capital) | 160 | 70 |
Mental health urgent and emergency care (capital) | 46 | Not yet available |
Source: NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care
Note: Spend on training new mental health staff, capital spend on mental health facilities under the Hospital Upgrades Programme and any local capital schemes is not separately identifiable.
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