Question follow-through · 100327
Mental Health Services: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) NHS Talking Therapy trainees and (b) Band 7 CBT therapist posts have been created in (i) Lambeth and (ii) Southwark in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) NHS Talking Therapy trainees and (b) Band 7 CBT therapist posts have been created in (i) Lambeth and (ii) Southwark in each of the last five years.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The table attached shows the growth in the relevant subsection of the NHS Talking Therapies workforce over the five years to 2024. The high intensity workforce, which includes cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) therapists, increased by 2,582 between 2019...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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