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1035021

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	to ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled, Right treatment right time, published by Rethink Mental Illness, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the conclusion that the average waiting time of assessment by patients with severe mental illness is 14 weeks.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	205224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on the average waiting time of assessment for patients with severe mental illness is not collected.</p><p> </p><p>The waiting time standard for people with first episode psychosis is for 60% to start treatment in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service within two weeks of referral. In 2017/18 this standard was exceeded, with 76.2% of people accessing services within two weeks in November 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/01/2019 14:44:48 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

714153

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health on ensuring that NHS providers fulfil requirements under the Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	69150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office and Department of Health work closely, on an ongoing basis, on a wide range of issues related to mental health and policing including those covered by the Concordat.</p><p> </p><p>The Minister for Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Counter Extremism and the Minister for Public Health and Innovation alternately chair the National Steering Group on the Crisis Care Concordat which monitors work across the country on local responses, including of NHS providers, to those in mental health crisis.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has recently allocated some £15m in funding to 88 projects across 40 Crisis Care Concordat partnerships to improve places of safety provision and ensure that people in mental health crisis are not detained in police stations. A further £15m of funding has been announced to continue this work. Both departments are engaged in preparations for forthcoming changes to the Mental Health Act 1983 as contained in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and which are designed to further improve the response to those in mental health crisis.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 31/03/2017 13:08:30 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

714633

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of recent progress with the Crisis Care Concordat following the withdrawal of Mind's secretarial support.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	69423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office together with their colleagues in the Department of Health have provided support mental health professionals and the police in England and Wales to enable them to work together to co-ordinate the right responses to people experiencing a mental health crisis.</p><p> </p><p>Between October 2013 and May 2015 the Department of Health funded Street Triage pilots in nine areas. NHS England subsequently published an evaluation into its effectiveness in November 2015. Street Triage schemes now operate in over 25 police force areas for which funding is provided by local partners for example Police and Crime Commissioners and Clinical Commissioning Groups. The Home Office has awarded £155,220 through the Police Innovation Fund to support a North Wales Police Mental Health Triage project. North Wales Police will evaluate the work following the end of the Home Office funding period on 31 March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Police forces may apply for future funding for Street Triage through the Police Transformation Fund.</p><p> </p><p>For those arrested in England on suspicion of committing an offence and taken to police custody Liaison and Diversion schemes, commissioned by NHS England to a national model, operate in over 50% of police forces areas and will be rolled out nationally by 2020/21. These schemes aim to identify, assess and refer people with mental health and other complex needs into appropriate support and treatment and where appropriate may influence sentencing options. The Department of Health has funded an evaluation into the effectiveness of Liaison and Diversion which is due to report in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Crisis Care Concordat partnerships have been established in England and Wales since 2015 and play a pivotal role in coordinating these approaches and improving mental health crisis care pathways. Whilst financial support for Mind’s secretariat has been withdrawn, we remain committed to ensuring the Crisis Care Concordat continues to progress and a national steering group is taking this forward.</p><p> </p><p>To assess the adequacy of the legislative framework a joint review of policing powers within the Mental Health Act 1983 was conducted by the Home Office and Department of Health during 2014. Following this review both the Home Office and Department of Health are engaged in preparations for forthcoming changes to the Mental Health Act 1983 as contained in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and which are designed to further improve the response to those in mental health crisis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To support these legislative provisions we have recently allocated some £15m in funding to 88 projects across 40 Crisis Care Concordat partnerships to improve places of safety provision and ensure that people in mental health crisis are not detained in police stations. A further £15m of funding has been announced to continue this work.</p><p> </p><p>These steps have been successful in reducing the use of cells and National Police Chiefs Council data highlighted a 54% reduction in the use of cells as places of safety from 2014/15 (4,537 occasions) - 2015/16 (2,100 occasions).</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 69422 69425 69451 69452 question first answered 04/04/2017 10:23:30 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

658582

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2016
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what comparative assessment he has made of (a) the level of psychiatric morbidity and suicide rate and (b) expenditure on mental health in Northern Ireland and other nations of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
	tabling member printed	Helen Whately
	uin	57554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The issue of mental health and expenditure on mental health in Northern Ireland is devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p>The Office of National Statistics does however, release regular statistics on the rate of deaths by suicide across the United Kingdom. The statistics can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/previousReleases" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/previousReleases</a></p><p>Officials from the Department of Health engage with their counterparts in the Devolved Administrations on these statistics, and they discuss whether there are areas for learning on tackling mental health problems.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 21/12/2016 12:59:15 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately

694231

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the press release of 9 January 2017, Prime Minister unveils plans to transform mental health support, when his Department plans to make digitally assisted mental health therapy available.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	65523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>Digitally-assisted mental health therapies are already available in parts of the National Health Service. Work is currently in progress to have National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved digitally-assisted therapies available across the NHS by 2019/20. NHS England is currently working, with the help of NICE, to scope, develop and test these products over 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 01/03/2017 14:28:41 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

670247

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the press release issued by the Prime Minister on 8 January 2017, where the 88 new places of safety being created for people experiencing mental health illness are.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	59212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>A list of local areas who will receive funding under the improving health based places of safety capital scheme is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/566778/approved_projects.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/566778/approved_projects.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 12/01/2017 16:23:02 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

451586

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality of 9 February 2016, on party of esteem in the NHS constitution, Official Report, column 1430, if he will add the right to psychological therapies to the constitution.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	26517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The NHS Constitution right to drugs and treatments reflects the legal funding requirement that applies to interventions recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) technology appraisal guidance.</p><p> </p><p>NICE has not been asked to undertake a technical appraisal of psychological therapies. If in the future, psychological therapies are recommended by NICE, and are consequently mandated for use in the National Health Service, we will consider consulting on including a right to psychological therapies within the Constitution.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last spending review we invested over £400 million into the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme to ensure access to talking therapies for those who need them and this has contributed to achieving very real improvements in the lives of people with anxiety and depression.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/02/2016 12:18:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

670244

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Prime Minister's press release on mental health service reform of 9 January 2017, in which countries has digitally assisted therapy already proved successful.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	59217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>Evidence from programmes in Australia and Sweden have informed the Digital Mental Health Strategy that will be implemented as part of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme will run a pilot of digitally-assisted Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in up to 30 clinical commissioning groups to establish an evidence base in England, and will continue to learn from other successful examples both here and abroad.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 12/01/2017 16:25:05 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

804561

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the NHS England document, Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View published in March 2017, what recent progress the NHS has made on meeting the objective for an additional 60,000 people to access (a) psychological and (b) talking therapies for common mental health conditions during 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	118763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Progress against the targets for mental health services improvement, set out within the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, are tracked on the Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/</a></p><p> </p><p>This shows that the National Health Service is on track to meet the targets for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT).</p><p> </p><p>The latest ‘Psychological Therapies, Annual report on the use of IAPT services - England, 2016/17’, which was published on 30 November, can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30157" target="_blank">http://www.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30157</a></p><p> </p><p>This shows that in 2016/17, 965,379 people entered treatment, resulting in an annualised access rate of 15.79%, exceeding the 15% target. Monthly data published by NHS Digital, up to and including August 2017, show that for 2017/18, 415,437 people have so far entered treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Complete data for 2017/18 will not be available until early 2018/19.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/12/2017 17:50:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

523552

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the NHS England Five Year Forward View on Mental Health, published in February 2016, what progress has been made on Recommendation 32 on a multi-disciplinary workforce strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	39867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government is working with delivery partners to carefully consider the independent Mental Health Taskforce’s recommendations and aims to publish a strategic implementation plan in the autumn that will set out how Government and partners will deliver the recommendations.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 39865 39866 39868 39869 question first answered 13/06/2016 16:40:01 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger