Kerry McCarthy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kerry McCarthy on 2016-06-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to improve the provision of mental health services.

Alistair Burt

The Department accepted the independent Mental Health Taskforce’s recommendations to transform mental health services and will set out later this year how it is implementing them.

The Department announced additional investment of £1 billion for mental health on top of the £1.4 billion for children and young people’s mental health.