To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan, how much and what proportion of the £2.3 billion funding for mental health has been distributed; and what that funding has been spent on.
Answered on
12 August 2022
The NHS Long Term Plan allocated a minimum £2.3 billion a year for the expansion of mental health services in England by 2023/24. However, this information is not held in the format requested.
The ‘’NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20 – 2023/24’ provides a summary of this investment which is available at the following link:
The NHS Mental Health Dashboard provides annual spending plans for National Health Service commissioning organisations, which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/