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Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to ensure adequate availability of mental health support services for (a) children and (b) young adults.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 3 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 8 Sept 2025
Answer: 15 Sept 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to ensure adequate availability of mental health support services for (a) children and (b) young adults.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
We are investing an extra £688 million this year to transform mental health services by hiring more staff, delivering more early interventions, and getting waiting lists down.We have confirmed that we will fulfil our commitment to recruit an additional 8,...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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