Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will encourage the adoption of the Mental Wellbeing Impact Assessment toolkit across (a) Government Departments and (b) local authorities.

We would like the mental health impacts on adults, children, and young people to be considered in all policymaking across Government. We are considering how to support the relevant departments to do this.

Mental health cannot just be the responsibility of the health system. As part of the 10 Year Plan shift to prevention, we will work across Whitehall, and the wider public and voluntary sector, to address the socioeconomic determinants of mental health.