Question follow-through · 51178
Mental Health Services: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the employment of qualified counsellors in paid roles within mental health services.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the employment of qualified counsellors in paid roles within mental health services.
13 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
The Department welcomes the appointment of qualified counsellors to roles within National Health Service mental health services. However, employment decisions are for individual employers, and we would expect any such appointments to be based on the succe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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