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1.235 Young people can develop mental health problems as a consequence of maternal mentalillness. Budget 2015 announces an additional £75 million over the next 5 years to givethe right care to more women who experience mental ill health during the perinatalor antenatal period. The Department for Education will also provide an additional £1.5 milliontowards piloting joint training for designated leads in Child and Adolescent Mental HealthServices (CAMHS) and schools to improve access to mental health services for children andyoung people, including the most vulnerable.1.236 Budget 2015 also announces a package of measures to improve employment outcomesfor people with mental health conditions. Starting from early 2016, the government willprovide online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to 40,000 Employment andSupport Allowance and Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants and individuals beingsupported by Fit for Work. From summer 2015, the government will also begin toco-locate Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) therapists in over 350Jobcentres, to provide integrated employment and mental health support to claimants withcommon mental health conditions.1.237 The government is committed to ensuring that those who have given so much in theservice of their country should receive the best possible care. This is why Budget 2015 willprovide an additional £8.4 million over the next 5 years to allow the NHS acrossEngland to significantly enhance current mental health and support services to themost vulnerable veterans in the community.Ensuring a fair contribution through the tax system1.238 The government is committed to a fair tax system in which everyone contributes toreducing the deficit, and those with the most make the largest contribution. Budget 2015announces further measures to tackle offshore evasion, close down tax avoidance, and ensure afair contribution from businesses and individuals.1.239 The vast majority of people and businesses in the UK pay the tax they owe and do notattempt to avoid their responsibilities. Nevertheless, where it exists, tax evasion and avoidancedamages the ability of the tax system to raise revenue fairly and imposes additional costson all taxpayers. This government has been relentless in its crackdown on tax evasion andavoidance, taking action to prevent such behaviour at the outset, and to detect and counterit effectively where it persists. During this Parliament, HMRC will have secured £100 billion inadditional compliance revenue as a result of actions taken to tackle evasion, avoidance and noncompliance.105Evasion1.240 Tax evasion is a crime that deprives the country of much needed revenue for publicservices. Over the last two years, this government has led work in Europe, in the G20 andthrough the UK’s G8 Presidency to transform international tax transparency. Agreement has nowbeen reached among 92 countries to exchange information on bank accounts automaticallyevery year. Regulations giving effect to these agreements will be laid shortly after Budget 2015.1.241 Under these agreements, starting in 2016 for the Crown Dependencies and OverseasTerritories, HMRC will receive a wide range of information on offshore accounts held by UK taxresidents, including names, addresses, account numbers, interest and balances. This representsan unprecedented change in HMRC’s ability to tackle offshore tax evasion.1.242 Building on this, the government will toughen sanctions for those who continueto evade tax by closing the existing disclosure facilities for tax evaders early. Atougher ‘last chance’ disclosure facility will be offered between 2016 and mid-2017,with penalties of at least 30% on top of tax owed and interest and with no immunityfrom criminal prosecutions in appropriate cases.105HMRC 2010-11 Annual Report, HMRC 2013-14 Annual Report and HMRC’s Mid-Year Report to Parliament – Aprilto September 2014.60 Budget 2015