Question follow-through · 50788
Mental Health Services: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has for departmental funding arrangements for the recruitment of 8,500 additional mental health workers.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 47 calendar days after tabling
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- 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
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has for departmental funding arrangements for the recruitment of 8,500 additional mental health workers.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
To reform the National Health Service and make it fit for the future, we will publish a 10-Year Health Plan as part of the Government’s five long-term missions. We are listening to and co-designing the plan with the public and health and care staff. A cen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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