Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:51 pm on 17 October 2018.
I'm sure I'll have the opportunity during budget scrutiny to go into much more detail on those specific areas that we've got, but I'm happy to clarify the points you raise. Yes, you're correct: there'll be an extra £35 million—that is what I plan to invest in addition to what we already provide in mental health and learning disability services. The ring fence does still exist for mental health services.
There is some confusion about the term 'transformation fund', because there is a specific mental health transformation fund to do exactly what it says—to try to help to transform mental health services in different parts of the country.
The 'A Healthier Wales' transformation fund is separate; they're not the same amounts of money and not the same fund. I will be making a statement on the transformation fund to help deliver 'A Healthier Wales'—I think it's next week or the week after. I'll be able to confirm the process that organisations are going through and also how we're looking at the initial bids that have come in. So, I should be able to give you more detail then on what's already happened and what I expect to happen in future, but they are different funds. I hope that's helpful in clarifying, but I understand, given that there is a mental health transformation fund and the 'A Healthier Wales' transformation fund, why there may be some honest confusion about the issue.