Mental Health Services: Pregnancy

(asked on 11th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the £290 million that the Prime Minister announced on 11 January 2016 to help new and expectant mothers combat poor mental health is additional funding, over and above existing budgets.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 14th January 2016

The £290 million investment in perinatal mental health services announced by the Prime Minister is funded from within the Department’ overall Spending Review Settlement.This builds on the initial investment announced at the Spring 2015 Budget, making a total investment from 2016/17 to 2020/21 of £350 million.

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