Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that all NHS mental health trusts consider the needs of women in service planning and delivery; and if he will make a statement.

NHS England and clinical commissioning groups are committed to ensuring fair and equitable National Health Service mental health services for all, which includes meeting the needs of all women in service planning, commissioning of services and service delivery. NHS England launched the Five Year Forward View Mental Health Task Force Report in February 2016, which clearly outlined action to be taken nationally, regionally, and locally to improve mental health services in England for women and all groups protected under the Equality Act 2010.