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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Services: Finance (6 October 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Government plans for funding relative to burden of disease to reach parity across mental and physical health.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

Answer

NHS England’s ‘Standard for Mental Health Investment’ requires the local National Health Service to increase mental health investment by the same proportion as overall allocations. This is planned to be met across England as a whole in 2017/18 and 2018/19.

It is for clinical commissioning groups to make decisions on spending priorities to best meet the health needs of their local population based on evidence based health assessments.

We were the first Government to place mental and physical health on an equal footing in law. Parity of esteem is the principle by which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health. It was enshrined in law by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.


Answered by:
Dame Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative)
16 October 2017

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