Mental Health Services: Finance

(asked on 20th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has plans to ring-fence mental health funding to clinical commissioning groups; and if he will make a statement.


This question was answered on 25th January 2017

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are best placed to make decisions on commissioning mental health services for their communities based on local need but they are required to increase their spending on mental health each year at least in line with the growth in their overall funding allocation.

In the Last year mental health spending through CCGs has increased by 8.4%, in comparison to an average overall allocation growth of 3.7%.

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