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Mental Health Services: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Key target hit with 8,500 extra mental health workers in the NHS, published on 30 April 2026, how many of the additional mental health work

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 May 2026
Target answer date
18 May 2026
Answer
16 Jun 2026 · 34 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Key target hit with 8,500 extra mental health workers in the NHS, published on 30 April 2026, how many of the additional mental health work

  2. 18 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    As part of our mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future and that is there when people need it, the Government has delivered on its commitment to recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers by the end of this Parliament, ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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