Question follow-through · 38282
Mental Health Services: Fathers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase levels of mental health (a) support and (b) assessments for fathers during perinatal periods.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 11 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
13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase levels of mental health (a) support and (b) assessments for fathers during perinatal periods.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
Support is already available for expectant and new fathers and partners who experience mental health difficulties during the perinatal period. Partners of women accessing specialist perinatal and maternal mental health services should be offered an eviden...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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