The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme supports the frontline National Health Service in implementing National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines for people suffering from depression and anxiety disorders. Over £400 million is being invested over the spending review period to make a choice of psychological therapies, including cognitive behavioural therapy, available for those who need them in all parts of England. The Department's Mandate to the NHS sets a clear objective for NHS England to deliver the key objectives of the IAPT programme—providing access to therapies to 15% of those eligible (around 900,000 people) per year by 2015, with a recovery rate of 50%. Helping people back into employment is a key objective of the programme. The Operating Framework for the NHS in England clearly states that the NHS should carry on expanding access to psychological services as part of the IAPT programme. NHS England is also running a series of pilot programmes to expand or improve IAPT services for people with severe mental illness, long-term conditions, black and minority ethnic groups and older people. The annual cost of mental health problems to the economy in England has recently been estimated at £105 billion. This is why we have enshrined in law the equal importance of mental health, alongside physical health. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out the equal status of mental and physical health. We have made improving mental health, and treating mental illness, a key priority for NHS England.. One of NHS England's 24 objectives is to put mental health on a par with physical health, and close the health gap between people with mental health problems and the population as a whole. We will hold the NHS to account for the quality of services and outcomes for mental health patients through the NHS Outcomes Framework. There are four measures which relate specifically to mental health. Improvements for people with mental health problems will also be a crucial element of success across the framework as a whole. We are supporting local organisations in taking effective action to improve mental health. Our mental health strategy and implementation framework, and our suicide prevention strategy, focus on specific actions which specific local organisations can take to improve mental health across the life course in their areas. The Mental Health Foundation is one of the Department's key partner organisations. The mental health strategy ‘No Health without Mental Health’ and its accompanying implementation framework, copies of which have already been placed on the Library, were co-produced with a number of partner organisations including the Mental Health Foundation. They are also represented on the mental health Ministerial Advisory Group which I chair. Therefore, representations of varying degrees of formality are received and responded to on a regular basis.