Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding from the public purse was available to (a) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and (b) all other child mental health services in each of the six local authority areas in the Liverpool City Region in each of the past five years for which data are available; and what funding is available to each of those areas for each of the next two years.

Information relating to funding on National Health Service children and young people’s mental health services is not available by local authority area, but is published through the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard by NHS England region, sustainability and transformation plan area and by clinical commissioning group, including for Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group. The Dashboard is available at the following link:

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

Information on funding for all other children and young people’s mental health services is not held centrally.