Mental Health Services: Finance

(asked on 12th July 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to increase funding for mental health and wellbeing support in disadvantaged areas.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 18th July 2022

We are investing at least £2.3 billion a year in mental health services by 2023/24 to allow an additional two million people in England to access National Health Service-funded mental health services. The funding and provision of health services, including mental health services, are the responsibility of integrated care systems, which can allocate funding according to local need. Through the COVID-19 Recovery Action Plan, we made £15 million available to invest in activity to promote positive mental health in the most deprived local authority areas in England.

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