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<p>We have made no such assessment. However, funding for National Health Service mental
health services has increased every year since 2018-19 in line with the commitments
in the NHS Long Term Plan to invest at least £2.3 billion of extra funding a year
in mental health services by 2023-24.</p><p>Public spending on adult social care services
has increased in real terms in every year since 2015-16, reaching £18.8 billion in
2019-20. We are providing councils with access to over £1 billion of additional funding
for social care in 2021-22. This includes £300 million of new grant funding for social
care, on top of the £1 billion social care grant announced in 2019.</p>
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