Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department plans to make available for mental health first aid training for all school teachers by the end of the Parliament in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19, (c) 2019-20, (d) 2020-21 and (e) 2021-22.

We are committed to offering Youth Mental Health First Aid training to a teacher in every secondary school by 2019 and to reach 1,000 schools by the end of 2017. The Government’s manifesto includes a commitment to offer this training to all schools, including primary schools.

We have made £200,000 available in 2017/18 to train the first 1,000 teachers in 2017 and we will work with Mental Health First Aid England to agree funding for future years.