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registered interest false more like this
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Department of Health remove filter
answering dept id 17 more like this
answering dept short name Health more like this
answering dept sort name Health remove filter
hansard heading Health Services: Finance more like this
house id 1 more like this
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25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Government plans for funding relative to burden of disease to reach parity across mental and physical health. more like this
tabling member constituency Bristol North West more like this
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Darren Jones remove filter
uin 105735 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2017-10-16more like thismore than 2017-10-16
answer text <p>NHS England’s ‘Standard for Mental Health Investment’ requires the local National Health Service to increase mental health investment by the same proportion as overall allocations. This is planned to be met across England as a whole in 2017/18 and 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>It is for clinical commissioning groups to make decisions on spending priorities to best meet the health needs of their local population based on evidence based health assessments.</p><p> </p><p>We were the first Government to place mental and physical health on an equal footing in law. Parity of esteem is the principle by which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health. It was enshrined in law by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Thurrock more like this
answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price more like this
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less than 2017-10-16T15:06:06.853Zmore like thismore than 2017-10-16T15:06:06.853Z
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label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price more like this
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label Biography information for Darren Jones more like this