Question follow-through · 7502
Mental Health Services: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made towards recruiting the additional mental health workforce.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made towards recruiting the additional mental health workforce.
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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, in February, the Government delivered on its commitment to recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers this Parliament, three...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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