Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to improve the delivery of mental health services.

The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health sets out 58 recommendations for transforming mental health services in England, all of which have been accepted by the Government. The Five Year Forward View is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf

The plan is supported by an extra £1 billion for mental health services to be spent between 2017 and 2021. Key steps for implementing the plan are set out in Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fyfv-mh.pdf