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Question follow-through · 1885

Mental Health Services: Somerset

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting time was to access children and adolescent mental health services in Somerset in each of the last ten years.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
29 Jul 2024
Answer
5 Aug 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting time was to access children and adolescent mental health services in Somerset in each of the last ten years.

  2. 29 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Aug 2024

    Answer published

    The information regarding what the average and longest waiting times were to access children and adolescent mental health services in Somerset is shown in the attached table.This report provides data on the number of referrals for children and young peopl...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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