Question follow-through · 54189
Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve communication around delays in appointment wait times for people seeking access to mental health support services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve communication around delays in appointment wait times for people seeking access to mental health support services.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
Long waits for mental health services are being driven by increasing demand to a system in desperate need of change. The Government is already responding by delivering new and innovative models of care in the community. As part of this, we have launched s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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