Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the level of investment in public mental health intervention in each of the last three years.

Previously, spend on public mental health has been a sub-category of the miscellaneous reporting category and most councils would have captured this spend locally. From 2016-17, mental health spend from the public health grant has its own dedicated reporting category and the information will be available nationally.