An extra £5.3 billion of funding for housing was announced at Autumn Statement, taking total planned investment to over £25 billion for the Spending Review period. This funding will support construction jobs, but also wider economic growth. Building more of the right homes, in the right places, is central to our vision of a country that works for everyone. Further details will be set out in the government’s forthcoming Housing White Paper.

We do not hold such information. Through the National Planning Policy Framework we ask local councils to use their Local Plans to meet the full, objectively assessed needs for all types of housing in their areas.

We have consulted on a 20% Starter Homes requirement for suitable housing sites of 10 units or more (or 0.5 hectares or more) for the regulations under the Housing and Planning Act 2016. We are considering the responses and will set out our future plans for housing in the forthcoming White Paper.

We will introduce a national funding formula for early years from the financial year 2017-18. A consultation on the early years formula closed on 22 September and we will set out our response later this autumn.

We will introduce national funding formulae for schools and high needs from the financial year 2018-19. We are considering the options carefully, taking into account the need to give schools and local authorities stability. We will put forward our detailed proposals later in the autumn, including our proposals for the transition to the formulae. Following a full consultation, we will make final decisions and confirm the arrangements in the new year.

Ex-Service men and women who have deployed since 1982 are eligible to receive assistance from the Veterans and Reserves Mental Health programme (VRMHP), as are reserves who have deployed overseas since 1 January 2003.

All ex-Service personnel referred to the VRMHP will receive a full psychiatric assessment by a Consultant Psychiatrist. This assessment report is then sent on completion to their NHS GP and/or local NHS clinical team with advice on further treatment and care. Since April 2016, this assessment has been provided at the individual’s nearest Ministry of Defence Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH), which for individuals in Worcestershire would most likely be the facility at Donnington, in Shropshire.

From September 2013, referrals to the VRMHP during each 12-month period are as follows:

Fewer than five referrals in the above table are recorded as having come from Worcestershire during the most recent 12-month period.

As the table shows, many referrals to the VRMHP initially came from individuals who self-referred. Since 2015, the VRMHP has strongly encouraged all veterans to obtain an NHS GP referral first, in order to obtain a ‘medically informed’ referral. This has meant in years 2015-2016 almost all referrals have come from the NHS GP, with a small proportion (about 5%) coming from NHS secondary mental health services or Service charities.

In March 2016, we published an Implementation Plan which sets out the actions partners across health and care will take to ensure commitments in the 2020 Challenge are delivered.

In August 2016, the Department published the Dementia Atlas; an interactive online resource which members of the public can use to review how their area is performing against a range of data across the Dementia Well Pathway. You can access the Atlas here:

https://shapeatlas.net/dementia/

NHS England advises that it will shortly be reviewing the actions to date and the future plans of health and care partners in Worcestershire.

Talking therapy services are provided through the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, led by NHS England. There are a number of routes into the programme including general practice referral and self-referral. The programme aims to ensure that services provide treatment within six weeks for 75% of people referred to the programme, and that 95% of people are treated within 18 weeks. These waiting time standards were introduced by the Government from 1 April 2015.

This is a matter for the local National Health Service. NHS England advises that initiatives instigated by the local mental health service provider, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, include a campaign in February 2015, primarily aimed at young people, called ‘Self-help not self-harm’.

The Trust’s campaign ‘How do you keep a healthy mind?’ raised awareness of coping methods for low level mental health issues such as stress, anxiety and low mood. This campaign tied in with the launch of the Worcestershire Healthy Minds service, which aims to support people earlier and prevent issues escalating. Its website has had over 16,000 hits since April this year.

The Trust has produced a Healthy Minds application, providing links to help people live well with common mental health problems. Since its launch, the application has been downloaded by over 1,800 people.

Information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table. This information includes people in contact with secondary mental health services. People in contact only with primary care mental health services are not included.

Source: NHS Digital Mental Health Minimum Dataset/Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Dataset

Notes:

1. This information includes people in contact with secondary mental health services for adults between 2012/13 and 2013/14. In September 2014 the scope of the dataset expanded to include learning disabilities and autism services. Statistics for 2014/15 are therefore not directly comparable to previous years.
2. Where people are recorded against more than one CCG during the year, they are only counted once for the CCG recording their highest level of care. Care spells with an admission are prioritised over care spells without an admission.
3. '-' denotes data not available.
4. In 2013/14, PCTs were replaced by CCGs. Worcestershire PCT was replaced by Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG, South Worcestershire CCG and Wyre Forest CCG. Hence the PCT figure is provided for 2012/13 and CCG figures for 2013/14 and 2014/15.
5. Information for 2015/16 is not available. It will be published on 30 November 2016.
6. Statistics are subject to suppression to avoid disclosure of information relating to identifiable individuals. In 2012/13, figures between 0 and 4 are suppressed and secondary suppression is applied where required. From 2013/14, figures between 0 and 4 are suppressed and all numbers are rounded to the nearest 5.
7. Changes in volume between years might reflect either changes in service delivery or changes in data quality. Therefore, figures for any year may not be fully comparable with other years, particularly at provider level.

My hon. Friend is absolutely right: local authorities are leading by example and showing how to welcome families into their communities, and I particularly congratulate Redditch on being ahead of the pack. So far 118 councils are participating, and we hope that that number will grow.

Will my right hon. Friend congratulate Redditch Borough Council on welcoming five Syrian refugee families into our town, over a third more than promised by the county of Worcestershire? Will she also update the House on the progress being made by our county to ensure that it follows the great example of Redditch Borough Council?