Written questions

Mental Health Services: Finance

Commons · Question 22031 · Tabled 6 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 15 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Melanie Onn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when it was decided that community interest companies should be ineligible for capital funding provided to NHS mental health trusts in the 2024-25 financial year; and whether he plans to make an as

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 15 Jan 2025

Government capital funding is provided for specific purposes, and for the National Health Service is for NHS organisations to manage their assets and provide NHS services. Community interest companies (CICs) are therefore outside the remit of most of this...