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Funding For Children And Young People's Mental Health Services

EDM number 736 in 2015-16, proposed by Norman Lamb on 19/11/2015.
Categorised under the topics of Health finance and Mental health.

That this House welcomes the commitment in the March Budget 2015 to invest an additional £1.25 billion over five years to improve children and young people's mental health services, amounting to £250 million annually; expresses strong concern that only £143 million of this funding will be spent in 2015-16, which is £107 million less than expected on the basis of an equal annual division of the total sum; notes that more than half of all mental ill-health in adulthood starts before the age of 14 years, and 75 per cent has developed by the age of 18; believes that early intervention to promote, protect and improve children and young people's mental health can dramatically improve their future life prospects; further believes that additional funding is vital to drive the improvement of mental health services and ensure that children and young people across the country have timely access to clinically effective mental health support; and calls on the Government to ensure that this £107 million shortfall from the current financial year is fully made up in 2016-17 and to stand by its commitment to invest the whole £1.25 billion over the course of the Parliament.

This motion has been signed by a total of 12 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Norman Lamb19/11/2015North NorfolkLiberal DemocratProposed
Peter Bottomley23/11/2015Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Alan Meale24/11/2015MansfieldLabourSeconded
Jim Cunningham24/11/2015Coventry SouthLabourSeconded
Ronnie Campbell25/11/2015Blyth ValleyLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins25/11/2015Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Greg Mulholland25/11/2015Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Mary Glindon26/11/2015North TynesideLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff01/12/2015Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Mark Williams02/12/2015CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake02/12/2015Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Thangam Debbonaire06/01/2016Bristol WestLabourSigned

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