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Mental Health Services: Veterans

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 1754, tabled on 13 November 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was provided for Op Courage in 2023.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answered on

20 November 2023

Planned spend on Op COURAGE in financial year 2023/24 is £23.5 million. Following the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, an additional £2.7 million was pledged over three years (until March 2025) to expand Op COURAGE services to support those experiencing complex mental and/or physical trauma, or alcohol and substance misuse.

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