Question follow-through · 40280
Mental Health Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the will increase funding for mental health services in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 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
- 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 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the will increase funding for mental health services in rural areas.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
Mental health is and will remain a priority for the National Health Service across the country, including for those in rural areas. This is backed by the Mental Health Investment Standard, which in 2025/26 will continue to ensure that mental health fundin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Nicotine: Smuggling
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle the sale of illegal nicotine pouches.
Electronic Cigarettes: Sales
2 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of penalties for the illegal sale of vaping products on those sales.
Whipps Cross and Princess Alexandra Hospitals
10 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on when the rebuilding of (a) Whipps Cross Hospital and (b) Princess Alexandra Hospital will be completed.
Fractures: Health Services
10 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to ensure all Integrated Care Boards have Fracture Liaison Services.
Slaughterhouses
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the increase in Food Security Agency charges for the 2025/26 financial year on small and medium-sized abattoirs.
Hospices: Contracts
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that hospice contracts adequately reflect the (a) cost of the services they provide and (b) needs of their local populations.
Hospices: Finance
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that hospices receive the funding required to raise staff pay in line with nationally agreed NHS pay rises.
Hospices: Finance
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has considered fully funding the (a) specialist palliative care, (b) advice and (c) assessments that are provided by hospices.
Palliative Care: Equality
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure adequate levels of accountability for the equitable provision of palliative care across England.
Mental Health: Staff
28 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Boost to mental health services from thousands of extra staff, published on 27 June 2025, how the recruitment of 6,700 mental health staff
Brain: Cancer
10 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to routine tissue freezing for brain cancer patients in a) Epping Forest and b) England for even access to advanced treatments, diagnostics and research.
Respiratory Diseases: Health Services
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the prevalence of respiratory disease and (b) the number of emergency hospital admissions for respiratory conditions in Epping Forest; and what steps