Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding has been allocated from the public purse for youth mental health services in (a) Kent and (b) Medway in 2018-19.

Details of clinical commissioning group spend on children and young people’s mental health services are published on the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard. This is available at the following link:

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

As a local system, Kent and Medway is committed to ensuring that children, young people and their families and carers, can access the most appropriate support to meet their needs. This includes ensuring that children and young people receive appropriate treatment in the right place at the right time.