Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has invested in talking therapies in each of the last three years.
The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard shows the total clinical commissioning group spend on Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT). The dashboard shows the total spend on IAPT in 2016/17 was £422.5 million. Data for 2017/18 has not been published yet and data 2015/16 is not held.