§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out the budget of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services over each of the last three years; and what the budget for CAMHS will be for each of the next three years. [75713]
§ Jacqui SmithIn the three years to the end of March 2003 we will have invested an additional £105 million in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) provided by health and social services. On 16 October my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health, announced that CAMHS would receive an additional investment of £140 million over the next three years through increased grants to social services.
In addition we have just set, in the priorities and performance framework, new capacity assumptions for health and social care which require a 10 per cent, per annum increase in CAMHS.