Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make additional funding available for the provision of child and adolescent mental health services in patient hospitals in north Cheshire.

It is for local commissioners to allocate funding to meet the needs of children and young people in the local population, including in Cheshire. Through the Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS), local National Health Service organisations must increase the planned spending on mental health services by a greater proportion than its overall increase in budget allocation each year. All clinical commissioning groups met the MHIS in 2020/21.

We have also committed to invest an additional £2.3 billion a year into mental health services by 2023/24 to ensure an additional 345,000 children and young people will have access to mental health services.