Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of any potential financial savings to the NHS of an increased take up of mindfulness-based therapy for the treatment of repeat depression.

An estimate into the potential savings of mindfulness-based therapy has not been made.

The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme was set up to deliver evidence based psychological therapies, including mindfulness-based therapies, as recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders but information is not available broken down by therapy type.