Luciana Berger MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Public Health, responding to today’s Mind report on mental health, said:

“Mental health should be treated no differently to physical health but these findings are further evidence that mental health is clearly at a disadvantage when it comes to allocating funds.

“The Government is failing to honour its promise of treating mental health with the same importance and attention as physical health.

“David Cameron must urgently tackle the crisis in mental health services. Ministers must do more to ensure that services needed by people with mental illness are in place and patients get the help and support that they need.”

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