Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State of Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2018 to Question 130638, whether his Department will trial integrated money advice in primary mental health care settings.

The Department has no immediate plans to trial integrated money advice in primary care settings. However, we are aware that general practitioner practices may signpost patients to debt advice services as part of their care and some practices have arrangements in place with local Citizens Advice Bureaux and debt advice services to provide outreach support in primary care. Mental health services, including Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services, may also signpost patients to debt advice services as part of their care.