Question follow-through · 38992
Mental Health Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that policy decisions on children’s mental health provision reflect the full range of evidence-based interventions, including counselling, rather
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Mental Health Services: Children and Young People · 27 Mar 2025
- Health Services: Offences against Children · 23 Jan 2026
- Public Health: Developing Countries · 15 May 2026
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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
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that policy decisions on children’s mental health provision reflect the full range of evidence-based interventions, including counselling, rather
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
All interventions delivered by National Health Service mental health services are evidence-based and use a range of clinical evidence. This includes counselling services.National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines make evidence-based reco...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2025 to Question 38992 on Mental Health Services: Children, what metrics his Department uses to provide a comparative assessment of the impact on long-term outcom
Health Services: Offences against Children
23 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Crime and Police Bill 2024-26, what assessment his Department has made of adequacy of training for reporting child sexual abuse for (a) healthcare professionals and (b) people
Public Health: Developing Countries
15 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the Official Development Assistance funding will be provided to the UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team project in the financial years 2026-27, 2027-28 and 2028-29.