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1686032

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2024
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of developing a bespoke strategy for children's and young people's mental health.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	12136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2024 answer text <p>Following on from our mental health and wellbeing call for evidence in 2022, we decided to develop a Major Conditions Strategy. This strategy will be joined up rather than standalone and will ensure that mental health is considered alongside other physical health conditions, meaning the interactions between the two are reflected in any resulting commitments.</p><p> </p><p>The Major Conditions Strategy’s case for change and strategic framework was published on 21 August 2023 and sets out a number of commitments to drive further improvements to support better mental health. The final Major Conditions Strategy is expected to be published later in 2024.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 02/02/2024 10:21:10 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1686035

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2024
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure coordination of children and young people's mental health support across different agencies.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	12139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department works closely with a number of agencies both inside and outside of the Government to support the mental health of children and young people. This includes working with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector to deliver and evaluate innovative, community-based mental health and wellbeing support for young people. This includes 10 early support hubs across England, backed by £4.92 million of new funding until the end of 2024/25. These hubs are open to those aged between 11 and 25 years old, who may not meet the threshold to receive National Health Service support.</p><p>Our flagship joint programme is the children and young people green paper programme, working across the Department for Education and NHS England. We are ahead of target on delivery of mental health support in schools and colleges and the Department for Education has committed to offer all state schools and colleges a grant to train a senior mental health lead by 2025, with over 14,000 schools and colleges having taken up the offer so far.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 02/02/2024 10:20:00 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1685436

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2024
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the number of crisis referrals to child and adolescent mental health services on the standard of therapeutic provision for under-18s in south Cumbria.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	11739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>There are no plans to make such an assessment at national level. We would expect National Health Service providers and commissioners to provide services in line with guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. The standard of therapeutic provision for children under 18 years old in South Cumbria is a matter for the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 06/02/2024 11:12:33 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1684760

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for child and adolescent mental health services in (a) St Helens North constituency and (b) the North West in the latest period for which data is available; and what steps she is taking to reduce those waiting times.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	11356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>Since 2018, we have invested an extra £2.3 billion a year to expand mental health services in England, with the aim of enabling two million more people, including 345,000 more children and young people to access mental health support.</p><p>We’re rolling out mental health support teams to schools and colleges. These now cover approximately 35% of pupils and are expected to reach 50% of pupils by March 2025. NHS England is also developing a new waiting time standard for children and their families to receive community-based mental health care within four weeks of referral.</p><p>Whilst the relevant data is not available at a constituency level, the following table shows the number of referrals for children and young people aged under 18 years old, supported through National Health Service-funded mental health, and waiting times for first contact between September and November 2023 for NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB), North West Commissioning Region, and England:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Number of referrals</p></td><td><p>Median waiting time between referral start date and first contact</p></td><td><p>90th percentile waiting time between referral start date and first contact</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB</p></td><td><p>8,550</p></td><td><p>21 days</p></td><td><p>469 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Commissioning Region</p></td><td><p>26,125</p></td><td><p>11 days</p></td><td><p>250 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>179,295</p></td><td><p>13 days</p></td><td><p>225 days</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Mental Health Services Data Set, NHS England</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>These metrics are in line with the proposed new waiting time standards for mental health but are not yet associated with a target, due to significant data quality concerns on the part of NHS England.</li></ol><p>The 90th percentile waiting time was 469 days meaning 10% of children and young people who received a first contact in this period waited over 469 days.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 31/01/2024 16:23:16 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1684250

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2024
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the current waiting times for CAMHS for children in (a) Darlington, (b) the North East and (c) England; and what steps she is taking to reduce those waiting times.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
	uin	10927
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>Since 2018, we have invested an extra £2.3 billion a year to expand mental health services in England, with the aim of enabling two million more people, including 345,000 more children and young people to access mental health support.</p><p>We are rolling out mental health support teams to schools and colleges. These now cover around 35% of pupils, and is expected to reach 50% of pupils by March 2025. NHS England is also developing a new waiting time standard for children and their families to start to receive community-based mental health care within four weeks from referral.</p><p>Whilst the relevant data is not available at a constituency level, the following table shows the number of referrals for children and young people aged under 18 years old, supported through National Health Service-funded mental health, and waiting times for first contact between September and November 2023 for NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB), North East and Yorkshire Commissioning Region, and England:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Number of referrals</p></td><td><p>Median waiting time between referral start date and first contact</p></td><td><p>90th percentile waiting time between referral start date and first contact</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB</p></td><td><p>13,085</p></td><td><p>9 days</p></td><td><p>174 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East and Yorkshire Commissioning Region</p></td><td><p>31,140</p></td><td><p>12 days</p></td><td><p>200 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>179,295</p></td><td><p>13 days</p></td><td><p>225 days</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Mental Health Services Data Set, NHS England</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>These metrics are in line with the proposed new waiting time standards for mental health but are not yet associated with a target, due to significant data quality concerns on the part of NHS England.</li><li>The 90th percentile waiting time was 174 days meaning 10% of children and young people who received a first contact in this period waited over 174 days.</li></ol> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 30/01/2024 17:54:10 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1678010

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2023
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report Children and young people’s mental health services: Targets, progress and barriers to improvement published by the Education Policy Institute on 10 December.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL1197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment. However, we are committed to increasing investment into mental health services by at least £2.3 billion a year by March 2024 and have set out our aim in the NHS Long Term Plan for an additional 345,000 children and young people to be able to get the mental health support they need.</p><p>We continue to work with the Department for Education to implement the proposals of the Government’s <em>Transforming children and young people’s mental health</em> green paper. A copy of the green paper is attached.</p><p>There are now almost 400 mental health support teams in place in schools and colleges across England. Mental health support teams now cover over three million children or approximately 35% of pupils in schools and colleges. We aim to increase this coverage to 50% by April 2025.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 19/12/2023 16:45:37 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name Transforming_children_and_young_people_s_mental_health_provision.pdf title Green paper
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1675880

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2023
	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: Children and Young People
	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 NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, how much and what proportion of the additional £2.3 billion of funding for mental health services has been spent on services for (a) children and (b) other young people.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
	uin	5578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan committed to increasing funding to support the expansion and transformation of National Health Service-funded mental health services for adults, children, and young people in England by an additional £2.3 billion a year by March 2024. The proportion of this funding that has been spent on children and young people’s services is not separately identifiable.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 14/12/2023 16:09:01 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1673233

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2023
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding per child and adolescent was provided for CAMHS mental health services in Warwick and Leamington constituency in (a) 2019 and (b) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	3908
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 3894 question first answered 01/12/2023 14:32:31 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1671440

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2023
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for a referral to child and adolescent mental health services in (a) Lewisham Deptford constituency, (b) London and (c) England in the latest period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	2653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>We are investing at least £2.3 billion of additional funding a year by March 2024 compared to 2018/19 to expand and transform mental health services in England so that two million more people, including 345,000 children and young people, can get the mental health support they need.</p><p> </p><p>Our record investment in mental health has seen spending on children and young people’s mental health services increase from £841 million in 2019/20 to just over £1 billion in 2022/23.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the average waiting time<sup>1</sup> for a referral to child and adolescent mental health services for the reporting period July to September 2023 is in the following table:</p><p> </p><p>Information is not available at constituency level.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Area</p></td><td><p>Median waiting time between referral start date and first contact in days for referrals for under 18s supported through NHS funded mental health with a first contact in the reporting period</p></td><td><p>Median waiting time between referral start date and first contact in days for referrals for under 18s supported through NHS funded mental health still waiting for a first contact and still waiting at the end of the reporting period</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>131</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewisham local authority</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>185</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Mental Health Services Data Set, NHS England<strong><br> <br> </strong><br> <sup>1 </sup>The wait time in days is calculated as the difference between the date the referral was made to the date the patient attended their first contact in relation to the referral. The information includes people with an open referral for suspected autism and anyone with a referral that was either discharged during the reporting period or has no discharge date submitted regardless of whether they had a first care contact during the year or not.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>The following local authorities have been included in the London grouping: Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth and Westminster.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 05/12/2023 17:22:21 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1669132

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2023
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to utilise the expertise of trained counsellors and psychotherapists in the 10 newly announced mental health support hubs for children and young people.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>We are investing at least £2.3 billion extra funding a year in expanding and transforming mental health services in England by March 2024. This funding will help hubs to hire counsellors, youth workers and other local experts.</p><p>The drop-in centres offer mental health support and advice to local young people who will not need a referral by a doctor or school. Services provided include group work, counselling, psychological therapies, specialist advice and signposting to information and other services.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 20/11/2023 13:42:54 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath