PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Prescribing: Finance (28 August 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government's press release of 16 August 2020 announcing £5 million of funding for social prescribing extends to people (a) under the age of 18 and (b) aged 18 to 25.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

The £5 million funding for social prescribing projects, announced on 16 August 2020, will go to the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP), launched on 23 October 2019. NASP is an independent organisation that will support local community partnerships, encourage innovation and improve the evidence base for social prescribing into the future for all groups, including the under 18 and 18 to 25 demographic groups. NASP is well placed to understand the needs of local populations and allocate funding for services to meet those needs from the overall resource allocations they receive.

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
23 September 2020