Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists

About this written question

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Answering body

Department of Health and Social Care

Tabled

2 Jun 2025

Target answer date

5 Jun 2025

Answer

25 Jun 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1. 2 Jun 2025

   Question tabled

   To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of people on waiting lists for mental health services who had been waiting for first contact for (a) five years and over, (b) between three and f

2. 5 Jun 2025

   Target answer date

   Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

3. 25 Jun 2025

   Answer published

   The information requested for secondary mental health services, including learning disability and autism services) is in the attached table. NHS Talking Therapies data is not included, and is published separately at the following link:https://www.england....

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.