Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding has been requested for the mental heath hub in Manchester as a result of the Manchester Arena terror attack of 22 May 2017; and how much funding the Government has given to that hub as a result of that request.

NHS England has made £1 million available for the Manchester North region for post incident health support.

The Department has allocated £1.6 million to fund post incident support and has also accelerated the roll out of Mental Health First Aid training in schools in Manchester.

These two figures combine to form the total funding requested by Manchester of £2.6 million over three years and will pay for staff as well as the setting up of the hub.