Question follow-through · 908653
Mental Health Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve acute mental health inpatient units.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 14 Apr 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve acute mental health inpatient units.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2026
Answer published
Anyone receiving mental health treatment deserves safe, high-quality care. We have fulfilled our manifesto commitment to reform the Mental Health Act. We set a national expectation to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements by March 2028, to ensure...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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