Norman Lamb – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the Government’s allocation of £1.4 billion mental health funding for children and young people will be spent in 2016-17; and if he will provide a detailed breakdown of that expenditure.

Alistair Burt

Of the £1.4 billion additional funding made available over the course of this parliament to improve children and young people’s mental health, £280 million has been allocated for 2016-17. The breakdown of this investment is as follows:

– £119 million has been allocated to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to transform local services through delivery of their local transformation plans;

– £30 million has been allocated to CCGs to develop community based eating disorder services for children and young people; and

– £131 million has been allocated centrally on workforce and system development to support local transformation plans.