Question follow-through · 8608
Mental Health Services: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of the adequacy of access to mental health provision in (a) urban and (b) rural areas.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of the adequacy of access to mental health provision in (a) urban and (b) rural areas.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
Integrated care boards are responsible for providing health and care services to meet the needs of their local populations, taking into account local considerations such as access to services in rural areas.Too many people are not receiving the mental hea...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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