PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Children (6 January 2017)
Question Asked
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
The available estimated National Health Service spend on children and young people’s mental health services in England only from 2010 is provided below. Healthcare is a devolved responsibility and the Department is not able to give information on the amount spent by the Welsh Government.
NHS Programme Budgeting data included estimated spending on children and young people’s mental health between 2009/10 and 2012/13 are found on NHS England’s website here:
NHS England’s financial reporting system estimated spending on children and young people’s mental health services in 2015/16 is set out in the following table.
Clinical Commissioning Group Spend | 2015 to 2016 Outturn (thousands) |
Children and young people’s mental health (excluding learning disability) | 476,875 |
Children and young people’s eating disorders | 39,518 |
Total Clinical Commissioning Group Children and Young People’s Mental Health (excluding learning disability) | 516,393 |
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Specialised Commissioning Spend | 2015 to 2016 Outturn (thousands) |
Tier 4 | 295,301 |
Total Specialised Commissioning Children and Young People’s Mental Health | 295,301 |
* Children and young people’s mental health spend data is not available from NHS England’s formal financial planning and reporting before 2015/16.
NHS England published the Clinical Commissioning Guidance Improvement and Assessment Framework for Mental Health on 27 October 2016. It includes a specific indicator on children and young people’s mental health that takes in planning, quality assurance and finance and is weighted towards those meeting the mental health investment standard for children and young people.
Answered by:
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative)
11 January 2017
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