Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) funding for and (b) provision of mental health services is adequate to meet the high need in London.

The NHS Long Term Plan committed to growing investment in mental health services faster than the National Health Service budget overall for each of the next five years, meaning that, by 2023/24, 380,000 more adults and a further 345,000 children and younger people can access support if they need it.

There is a requirement that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) increase the spending on mental health by at least as much as their overall budget increases (what is known as the Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS)). All London CCGs are on track to meet the MHIS.