Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 9 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has allocated to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), as a percentage of frontline spend, this parliamentary session, broken down by financial year.
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’.