Question follow-through · 57720
Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2025 to Question 43598 on Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment, what his planned timetable is for the reduction of at least 580 out-of-area placements.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2025 to Question 43598 on Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment, what his planned timetable is for the reduction of at least 580 out-of-area placements.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
NHS England has advised that it expects the reduction of at least 580 placements which are out of area, far from home, or outside of natural clinical flow for adult forensic, and children and young people’s mental health inpatient services to be achieved ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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