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Mental Health Services: Finance

Volume 501: debated on Thursday 26 November 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the mental health budget was in each of the last 30 years. (300912)

This information is not available in the format requested. Data are collected by the Department from the programme budgeting data collection from 2003-04 onwards. Prior to this, data was collected through the national health service Health and Community Health Services collection (HCHS). The two data collections are not compatible, and the HCHS data set underestimates total expenditure, so has not been used.

Data on mental health budgets from 2003-04 to 2007-08 only are available from the NHS programme budget data collections for mental health disorders and this is shown in the table.

Department of Health: Programme budget data collection total expenditure on mental health services by the NHS in England 2003-04 to 2007-08

Expenditure (£000)

2003-04

7,386,096

2004-05

7,905,131

2005-06

8,538,755

2006-07

9,125,740

2007-08

10,291,979

Source: Department of Health.