Question follow-through · 32624
Mental Health Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of waiting times for children’s mental health services, between the point of initial assessment and starting treatment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 12 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
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of waiting times for children’s mental health services, between the point of initial assessment and starting treatment.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2025
Answer published
No such assessment has been made, as the Mental Health Services Data Set does not collect data from ‘initial assessment to starting treatment’.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
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