Question follow-through · 21231
Mental Health Services: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for recruiting 8,500 additional mental health workers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for recruiting 8,500 additional mental health workers.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
As part of our mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future, we will recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers to reduce waiting times and provide faster treatment.We recognise that bringing in the staff needed will take t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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