Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will introduce an NHS activity-based payment scheme for mental health and community services; and if so, what measures they will introduce to ensure stable and fair payment for those services through that scheme.

Neither the Department or NHS England have any plans to introduce an activity-based payment scheme for all community and mental health services. However, it may be appropriate to introduce activity-based payment for some community and mental health services in the future.

NHS England is developing standard currencies for community and mental health services that can be used as the basis for future payment models. The development of community and mental health tariffs will be dependent on the availability of good quality costing and activity data.