Mental health treatment funding approved for MPs

MPs will be entitled to receive mental health treatment in Westminster, a parliamentary committee has announced. The Commons Members Estimate Committee has approved an annual budget of £25,000 to help MPs with mental health problems access treatment.

The Committee said that is hard for MPs to access mental health services in their constituencies because of "their profile in the community" where they engage in frequent contact with local healthcare commissioners.

In a Commons debate in June 2012 on mental health, Mr Jones told MPs he had suffered from "quite a deep depression related to work issues" in 1996. He said he had "thought very long and hard" about whether to speak publicly about the matter, because: "like a lot of men, you try and deal with it yourself. You don't talk to people..".

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