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Liz McInnes

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Local Government Finance Settlement
Tuesday 19th December 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. Members can ask questions consisting of no more than one sentence each.

Liz McInnes Portrait Liz McInnes (Heywood and Middleton) (Lab)
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What funds are being made available to our mental health services to meet the additional demands placed on them by changes in the Mental Health Act 1983, which came into force on 11 December this year?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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I can reassure the hon. Lady that we are putting a lot of extra funding into mental health— £575 million last year alone—to meet those and other obligations.

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