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Mental Health Services: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS funding has been allocated to mental health services in each year since 2015; and whether this funding met the NHS mental health investment standard.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Dec 2024
Answer
10 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS funding has been allocated to mental health services in each year since 2015; and whether this funding met the NHS mental health investment standard.

  2. 6 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 10 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The following table shows the recurrent National Health Service baseline, the total forecast mental health spend, and the proportion of NHS funding forecasted to be allocated to mental health services, which is only available in the format required under ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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