Mental Health

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 27 November 2012.

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Photo of Norman Lamb Norman Lamb The Minister of State, Department of Health 11:30, 27 November 2012

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that question. Atlases of variation are an important way of raising standards and we will be discussing their future use with the new commissioning organisations. He is also right to highlight the absolute importance of having parity of esteem between physical and mental health. The Government’s mandate makes it absolutely clear that there must be parity between mental and physical health services.