Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of the new discharge funding announced on 9 January 2022 that will be spent on mental health services in Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.
On 9 January, the government announced up to £200 million funding for step down care. Of this the North East and North Cumbria ICB has been allocated a capped budget of over £11 million. Information on the use of this funding within the integrated care board is not available publicly.