Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding for mental health has been allocated from the public purse to Cornwall in each of the last three years; and how much such funding is planned to be allocated to Cornwall in 2018-19.

Expenditure on mental health services for the years 2015/16 and 2016/17 spend by clinical commissioning group (CCG) is available in the mental health Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (FYFVMH) dashboard, which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/

For NHS Kernow CCG, which is responsible for commissioning services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, the FYFVMH Dashboard shows that for 2015/16 its spend on mental health was £121.8 million, and for 2016/17, £120.7 million