Dr Julian Lewis: What the Government's policy is on the provision of modern in-patient mental health units.

The Prime Minister (Mr Gordon Brown): High-quality in-patient care is one component of acute mental health services, supported by appropriate alternatives to admission. The Government paper "New Horizons", which the hon. Gentleman will know of, published in December 2009, set out a cross-Government programme of action to improve the mental well-being of people in England and to drive up the quality of mental health care.

Dr Lewis: Praise where it is due; under Blair's Britain, several first-class state-of-the-art mental health in-patient units were opened in or near my constituency. Under Brown's Britain, one of them has just closed and another is under threat. Instead of in-patient facilities, we are promised

"a shared dashboard of clinical performance quality indicators".

Is the Prime Minister happy to see front-line services replaced by management gobbledegook?

The Prime Minister: I know that the hon. Gentleman will want to be fair, and the World Health Organisation says that we are the best when it comes to the provision of mental health care. We obviously want to do better every time. Since 2001, there has been a 50 per cent. increase in real-terms investment in mental health. It is wrong to say that we are underfunding mental health. We are trying to do what we can and we will continue to do what we can. The hon. Gentleman should be fair in recognising that.