PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Staff (23 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of funding available through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme has been spent on mental health practitioners since 2019.

Asked by:
Josh Newbury (Labour)

Funding available through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) for mental health practitioners accounts for 50% of the costs of these roles, with the other 50% provided by mental health trusts. Mental health practitioners were not introduced into the ARRS until 2021/22. The following table shows the spend on mental health practitioners through the ARRS, and that spend as a proportion of overall ARRS funding, for 2021/22 to 2023/24:

Year	Mental health practitioner spend through the ARRS	Proportion of overall ARRS funding
2021/22	£3,402,000	0.5%
2022/23	£18,281,000	1.8%
2023/24	£31,000,000	2.2%

Answered by:
Stephen Kinnock (Labour)
1 November 2024