Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of their commitment made in July to provide £1.3 billion to expand mental health services, whether any of those funds will be used to support people with behavioural problems as well as those with psychiatric problems.

Stepping forward to 2020/21: The mental health workforce plan for England, published in July, committed funds for the expansion of the mental health workforce across a range of clinical areas including Children and Young People’s services, Core Acute and Core Community services. These areas support service users with behavioural problems, as well as meeting needs for wider psychiatric support. A copy of the report is attached.