Question follow-through · 14932
Mental Health Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to maintain levels of mental health spending in line with planned increases in other NHS spending in (a) the next financial year and (b) the future.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to maintain levels of mental health spending in line with planned increases in other NHS spending in (a) the next financial year and (b) the future.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
The NHS Operational and Planning Guidance for 2024/25 makes clear that integrated care boards are expected to continue to meet the Mental Health Investment Standard by increasing their investment in mental health services in line with their overall increa...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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