Question follow-through · 9441
Mental Health Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase investment into the children's mental health system to (a) reduce waiting times for and (b) increase access to support.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2024 · 26 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase investment into the children's mental health system to (a) reduce waiting times for and (b) increase access to support.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2024
Answer published
It is unacceptable that too many children and young people are not receiving the mental health care they need, and we know that waits for mental health services are far too long. That is why we will recruit 8,500 additional mental health workers across bo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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