Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2016 to Question 48541, when and where the refreshed local transformation plans will be published; and what steps his Department will take to monitor how effectively those plans support the delivery of mental health services to children and young people.

From 2016-17 children and young people’s mental health is being mainstreamed as part of the normal NHS England planning cycle so that Local Transformation Plans are integrated into the wider Sustainability and Transformation Planning (STP) process.

Local health economies have come together to develop STPs for their areas until 2020-21. Local areas will publish their plans shortly.

STPs are expected to include actions to improve and invest in mental health services in line with the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health published by NHS England. Local areas submitted their plans on 21 October and NHS England is working with them to ensure that these measures have been adequately reflected.