Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 14 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown by (a) service and (b) NHS board of mental health spending in each financial year from 2016-17 to 2021-22, and, if it is the case that such data is not held, whether it will commit to improving data collation to enable the publication of such data by the end of the current parliamentary session.
Net mental health expenditure is published on the Public Health Scotland website Scottish health service costs under data files mental health expenditure Excel workbook. This information is available for financial years 2011-12 to 2021-22 for each NHS Board in Scotland, split by various types of expenditure including Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), adult mental health services, and older adult mental health services. Please note that expenditure data is collected by broad specialties and therefore categories may include multiple ‘services’.