Question follow-through · 20487
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his plans to provide mental health professionals in schools include access to children and young people’s counsellors trained to Level 4 Diploma of Higher Education in counselling with clin
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- NHS: Contracts · 17 Apr 2025
- NHS: Contracts · 8 May 2025
- NHS: Contracts · 15 May 2025
- Healthy Start Scheme: Bristol Central · 9 Jun 2025
- Ophthalmic Services · 16 Jun 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
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his plans to provide mental health professionals in schools include access to children and young people’s counsellors trained to Level 4 Diploma of Higher Education in counselling with clin
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
We know that waits for mental health services are far too long, including for children and young people. That is why we will recruit 8,500 additional mental health workers across children and adult mental health services, and introduce a specialist ment...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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NHS: Contracts
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy for contracts awarded to non-NHS providers to require those providers to provide pay and conditions on NHS Agenda for Change terms for staff that deliver such services
NHS: Contracts
8 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2025 to Question 46236 on NHS: Contracts, what assessment he has made of the number of staff working in the NHS for non-NHS providers (a) nationally and (b) in the B
NHS: Contracts
15 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2025 to Question 50992 on NHS: Contracts, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of staff working in the National He
Healthy Start Scheme: Bristol Central
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families were in receipt of Healthy Start in Bristol Central constituency on 9 June 2025.
Ophthalmic Services
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the requirement for a pre-visit notification on access to eye care for (a) people experiencing homelessness and (b) care home residents.
Ophthalmic Services
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will remove the requirement for a pre-visit notification for eye care.
Ophthalmic Services
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with his (a) Welsh and (b) Scottish counterpart on the removal of the requirement for a pre-visit notification for eye care.
Ophthalmic Services: Scotland and Wales
26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60392 on Ophthalmic Services, if he will have discussions with the (a) Welsh and (b) Scottish governments on the requirement for pre-visit notific
Infant Mortality: Bristol Central
13 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support families who have experienced baby loss in Bristol Central constituency.
Health: Private Rented Housing
29 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to The New Decent Homes Standard: policy statement, updated 28 January 2025, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Life Expectancy
18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the gap in healthy life expectancy between Bristol Central and the rest of the UK.
Asylum: Death and Suicide
18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce (a) suicide and (b) deaths amongst young asylum seekers.