Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each clinical commissioning group spent on anti-depressant prescription drugs in the financial year 2014-15.

Available data for the total net ingredient cost of prescription items written in each clinical commissioning group, in England, and dispensed in the community, in the United Kingdom, for antidepressant medicines, as defined by the British National Formulary, section 4.3, Antidepressant drugs, for the 2014-15 year, is attached.

The data has been extracted from the Prescribing Analysis and Cost Tool system and provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.