Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2015 to Question 11306, what the cost of commissioning NHS Employers to help trusts improve staff mental health and wellbeing was in the last year for which figures are available.

The Department does not collect information on the cost of commissioning individual work programmes or projects from NHS Employers. Each year, the Department agrees a contract price for the work it commissions from them, which NHS Employers then allocate across their teams.

The contract price the Department agreed with NHS Employers for 2014-15, the latest full year figure available, which included the work helping trusts to improve staff mental health and wellbeing, was £8,664,876.