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Mental Health Services: Cornwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health workers will be recruited in Cornwall by 2029.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
26 Mar 2025
Answer
26 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health workers will be recruited in Cornwall by 2029.

  2. 26 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    As part of our mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future and that is there when people need it, the Government will recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers to reduce delays and provide faster treatment, which will als...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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