§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on adult mental health services in each year since 1997–98; what the projected expenditure is in financial year 2003–04; if he will provide the figures in(a) cash terms and (b) Retail Price Index-adjusted terms using 1997–98 as a baseline; and if he will make a statement on the method used for compiling the figures. [143715]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonThe table sets out the mental health services expenditure on patients aged 16 or over since 1997–98.
£million Expenditure RPI-adjusted expenditure 1997–98 2,849 2,849 1998–99 3,011 2,894 1999–2000 3,188 3,016 2000–01 3,729 3,427 2001–02 4,006 3,617 It is not possible to estimate the expenditure for mental health services for 2002–03 and 2003–04 until the national health service accounts for these years are finalised, at the end of January 2004 and 2005 respectively.
The figures are taken from the Expenditure Per Head of Population (EPHoP) analysis of healthcare spend. EPHoP measures activity from in-patients, out-patients and community based patients against expenditure taken from the hospital and community health service programme budget. The programme budget is compiled using NHS accounts—a combination of finance returns from strategic health authorities, NHS trusts, primary care trusts and the strategic health authority summarisation schedules.
Activity data from a range of sources, for example hospital episode statistics, Körner community returns, the Living in Britain survey, etc. are used to distribute 856W the expenditure figures for each sector—mental health, acute services, etc. proportionally across the whole population.
Using the combination of expenditure and activity figures, the treatment cost is for each person within each age group and for each type of activity is calculated.