Question follow-through · 25925
Mental Health Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of challenges of accessing mental health provision in rural communities.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of challenges of accessing mental health provision in rural communities.
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
Waiting lists for those wanting to access mental health provisions are too high across England, in areas with fewer mental health services and including those in rural communities. People with mental health issues are not getting the support or care they ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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