Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities receive sufficient funding for the provision of Tier 1 and Tier 2 CAMHS.

Expenditure on children and young people’s mental health and children and young people’s eating disorders is tracked in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard. However this information is not broken down to show information on expenditure for Tier 1 and Tier 2 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). The dashboard is available at the following link:

www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/

NHS England does not make specific allocations for programme areas like CAMHS. Budgets and contracts for services are decided and commissioned locally by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) which assess local needs. Furthermore, NHS England does not determine allocations or contracts for local authorities. Again, these are decided and commissioned locally by CCGs in response to local need.

Under the Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS), all CCGs are required to increase mental health expenditure in line with their overall allocation. The MHIS is being introduced into planning guidance from 2018/19 so all CCGs will have to meet it.