Question follow-through · 613
Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for bringing forward proposals to update and improve mental healthcare.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 30 Jul 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Health and care
- HM Courts and Tribunals Service: NHS · 17 Oct 2024
- Health Services: Waiting Lists · 13 Nov 2024
- Mental Health Services: Finance · 19 Nov 2024
- Pharmacy: Finance · 6 Jan 2025
- Midwives: Self-employed · 28 Feb 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for bringing forward proposals to update and improve mental healthcare.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jul 2024
Answer published
Our plans to update and improve mental healthcare will be shared in due course.The King’s speech confirmed our intention to bring forward a Mental Health Bill to give patients greater choice, autonomy, enhanced rights and support, and ensure everyone is t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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HM Courts and Tribunals Service: NHS
17 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what financial contribution the NHS makes to the tribunal service.
Health Services: Waiting Lists
13 Nov 2024 · What steps his Department is taking to help reduce the number of people on NHS waiting lists.
Mental Health Services: Finance
19 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to maintain levels of mental health spending in line with planned increases in other NHS spending in (a) the next financial year and (b) the future.
Pharmacy: Finance
6 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake a review of the (a) funding model and (b) role of community pharmacies.
Midwives: Self-employed
28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to facilitate access to professional indemnity insurance for self-employed midwives.
Midwives: Self-employed
28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to support self-employed midwives.
Mental Health Bill (HL)
25 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which stakeholders (a) he and (b) his officials have met with while (i) preparing, (ii) publishing and (iii) bringing forward the Mental Health Bill.
Mental Health Bill (HL)
25 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have met with the Bring People Home from Psychiatric Hospital campaign to discuss the Mental Health Bill.
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Autism
25 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with autism have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each of the last five years.
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Learning Disability
2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with learning difficulties have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each of the last five years.
Mental Illness: Police Custody
20 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on the use of police vehicles as places of safety for people with mental heath conditions, in the context of police and prison cells no longer being used to place people experien
Bipolar Disorder: Mental Health Services
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role neighbourhood mental health centre pilot schemes will play in improving (a) care and (b) support for people living with bipolar disorder; and whether these centres will provide specialist