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  NHS Funding Bill - Clause 1 - Annual Statement - Parity of Esteem for Mental Health Services - Spending on Mental Health Services
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require an annual statement on the Secretary of Stateâs plans to achieve parity of esteem in mental health services, including the amount spent on mental health services in each of the next four financial years.
  @ MP voted no not to require an annual statement on the Secretary of Stateâs plans to achieve parity of esteem in mental health services, including the amount  spent on mental health services in each of the next four financial years.
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to require an annual statement on the Secretary of Stateâs plans to achieve parity of esteem in mental health services, including the amount  spent on mental health services in each of the four upcoming financial years.
  
  This was a division in which only the votes of MPs from constituencies in England were recorded. 
   
  MPs were considering the NHS Funding Bill[1]
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :amendment 2, page 1, line 10, at end insertâ
  
  :â(1A) The amount spent on mental health services in each financial year set out in the table must be set out in a statement laid before the House of Commons by the Secretary of State no later than 30 June in each year.
  
  :(1B) The statement in subsection (1A) must be accompanied by a statement on the Secretary of Stateâs plans to achieve parity of esteem in mental health services.â
  
  
  
  The rejected amendment was accompanied by the following explanatory statement from its proposer:
  
  :This amendment would require the Secretary of State to report annually on the amount actually spent on mental health services, and on the Secretary of Stateâs plans to achieve parity of esteem in mental health services.
  
  
  Clause 1 of the Bill[2] set out minimum levels of revenue spending on the NHS for the upcoming four financial years. 
  
  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2019-20/nhsfunding.html Parliament's webpage on the NHS Funding Bill]
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0006/20006_en_2.html#l1g1 Clause 1 of the NHS Funding Bill as at the time of the vote, Parliament.uk]
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