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Question follow-through · 15365

Mental Health Services: Cheshire and Merseyside

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of mental health staff recruited in the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB area since July 2024.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
6 Jul 2026
Answer
13 Jul 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of mental health staff recruited in the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB area since July 2024.

  2. 6 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 13 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    The following table shows the latest available National Health Service workforce data from NHS England’s Electronic Staff Record for trust-employed, whole time equivalent (WTE) mental health (MH) staff in the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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