Oral QuestionDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

What guidance her Department has issued to businesses to help them make more effective use of the Apprenticeship Levy.

Tabled: 16 October 2019Answered: 22 October 2019

Asked by

Sir Desmond Swayne

ConservativeNew Forest West

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Care (Stephen Kinnock)

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bedford (Mohammad Yasin) on his re-election and my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Tim Roca) on his election. More than a million people with mental health issues are not getting the support they need. This Government will fix our broken NHS. That will include recruiting 8,500 mental health workers, including specialist mental health professionals in every school and rolling out young futures hubs in every community. As announced in the Gracious Speech, we are bringing forward legislation to modernise the Mental Health Act 1983, which is a hugely significant step that has been warmly welcomed by service users, campaigners and, indeed, the former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May.