Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the availability of mental health services in areas under the North East London Clinical Commissioning Group.

The North East London local integrated care board is responsible for commissioning mental health services for their local populations and information on steps being taken locally to improve the availability of mental health services is not held centrally.

The Government has committed to increasing investment into mental health services by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 which will enable an additional two million people can get the National Health Service funded mental health support that they need across England, including in North East London.