Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the £19 million spent in capital in 2020 on central programmes to support mental health services was spent on schemes to deliver Perinatal Mental Health Mother and Baby Units.

Between 2017/18-2018/19, £14.8 million central capital funding was provided to four trusts as part of our programme for perinatal mental health mother and baby units. The units provide in-patient support for women and their babies with the most complex and severe needs that require hospital care, who are experiencing severe mental health crisis including very serious conditions like post-partum psychosis.

Capital spending figures for 2019/20 will be included in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts, to be published shortly on GOV.UK.