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Students: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the availability of mental health support within universities.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
31 Oct 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the availability of mental health support within universities.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    This government is committed to ensuring students in higher education (HE) have access to effective mental health support. This is why my noble Friend, the Minister for Skills, has recently appointed a new HE Student Support Champion to lead a reconvened ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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