Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2016 to Question 42420, on what dates Ministers of his Department met Ministers from other government departments formally to discuss the NHS England Five Year Forward View published in February 2016.

Ministers and officials have liaised regularly with other Government departments in relation to the independent Mental Health Taskforce’s Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.

We will publish an implementation plan later this year to set out how we are progressing the Taskforce’s recommendations.