Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to promote a cross-cutting and comprehensive approach to tackling mental health problems among young people.

This Government is committed to ensuring comprehensive support for children and young people’s mental health, including investing an additional £1.4 billion by 2020/21.

The Government has committed to publish a Green Paper on children and young people’s mental health by the end of the year, which has been jointly developed with the Department for Education. NHS England, Public Health England and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have been closely engaged throughout the development process.