Amanda Solloway – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Amanda Solloway on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the additional £1.25 billion made available in the March 2015 Budget for child and adolescent mental health services has been spent in Derby North constituency.
Nicola Blackwood
This information is not available in the format requested.
We are advised by NHS England that from this additional funding the amount allocated to Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group in 2015/16 was £1.029 million and for 2016/17 the amount is £1.370 million.
This Government has made £1.4 billion funding available over the course of the Parliament for spending on children and young people’s mental health, with total investment to date of £453 million.
Investment in 2015/16 included:
– £75 million to transform local services through delivery of Local Transformation Plans (LTPs);
– £30 million to improve community based eating disorder services; and
– £68 million to fund expansion of the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (CYP IAPT); improvements to perinatal mental health care; investment in inpatient services for children and young people; increased workforce capability; and innovation and development of online support.
Investment for 2016/17 includes:
– £119 million for LTPs;
– £30 million to improve community based eating disorder services; and
– £131 million for workforce and system development to support LTPs; a proportion of this will be allocated to commissioners for CYP IAPT and perinatal mental healthcare.
