Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of NHS England committed capital funding allocated to NHS mental health trusts (a) in total (b) as a proportion of overall spend.

The six main central capital programmes where funding has been provided so far this year are for sustainability and transformation partnerships transformation and the Health Infrastructure Plan schemes, replacing diagnostics equipment, critical infrastructure risk, improving accident and emergency capacity for winter 2020, and to eradicate dormitory accommodation from mental health facilities. Nearly £1.5 billion has been allocated across all trusts for these schemes and mental health trusts are so far allocated to receive £141 million of capital from these schemes for 20/21 - 9.6% of this capital funding.

A further £58 million of funding will be allocated to remove outdated mental health dormitories in the next few weeks to mental health trusts, with further funding to be confirmed in the coming months.