Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Mental Health Trust does not reduce its mental health budgets; and what information his Department holds on changes to the level of those budgets planned for the next five years.
West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is the lead commissioner on mental health for Cheshire and Wirral. The CCG intends to increase funding over the next five years.
The CCG advises that its contracted mental health spend in 2017/18 is £26.251 million, which equates to a 4.7% increase in spend compared to 2016/17. 95% of this budget is directly contracted with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.