Question follow-through · 42934
Mental Health Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has produced an impact assessment on the potential impact of reducing the proportion of the NHS budget allocated to mental health services.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 31 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 23 Apr 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has produced an impact assessment on the potential impact of reducing the proportion of the NHS budget allocated to mental health services.
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Apr 2025
Answer published
For 2025/26, mental health spending is forecast to amount to £15.6 billion. This represents a significant spending uplift of £320 million in real terms on mental health compared to the previous financial year.In addition, integrated care boards are foreca...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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