Hansard

Mental Illness

Volume 460: debated on Monday 14 May 2007

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Mr. Laws

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of expenditure on commissioned secondary mental illness services went to (a) NHS trusts and (b) non-NHS providers in each of the last 10 years. (129898)

Ms Rosie Winterton

Information on the proportion of expenditure commissioned by secondary mental illness services by national health service trusts and non-NHS trusts providers is not available. Mental health strategies collects information on behalf of the Department on adult mental health planned expenditure in England. The following table shows the proportion of adult MH planned expenditure by NHS trust and non-NHS trusts providers from 2001-02 to 2005-06.

Adult mental health planned expenditure from 2001-02 to 2005-06 and percentage split by provider type

All NHS organisation (Percentage)

Non-NHS organisation (Percentage)

Total investment (£000)

2001-02

70.7

29.3

3,254

2002-03

73.4

26.6

3,709

2003-04

72.9

27.1

3,943

2004-05

73.7

26.3

4,520

2005-06

73.7

26.3

4,904

Notes:

1. Percentage split by commissioner type exclude unreported investment.

2. Total investment include reported and unreported investment.

3. Non-NHS providers include social services, voluntary and the independent sectors.

Source:

Mental Health Strategies survey.