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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

1664736

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
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, following the Children's Society's The Good Childhood Report 2023, published on 20 September, what steps the Department of Health and Social Care's Major Conditions Strategy will take to prevent poor mental health and promote wellbeing in children and young people.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Derby
uin	HL10519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>As part of the development of the Major Conditions Strategy, we are considering the most effective ways to prevent and treat poor mental health and promote wellbeing for people of all ages. We will continue to work closely with stakeholders, the public and the National Health Service to identify actions that will have the most impact.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 24/10/2023 12:17:56 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4714 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Derby

1663102

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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 recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Mental Health Support Teams in reducing levels of demand on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
uin	200956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>An independent early evaluation commissioned by the Department of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme was published in January and is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/brace/projects/children-and-young-people's-mental-health-trailblazer-programme.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/brace/projects/children-and-young-people's-mental-health-trailblazer-programme.aspx</a></p><p>The evaluation examines the development, implementation, and early progress of the first wave of mental health support teams in the first 25 ‘trailblazer’ areas participating in the programme, which became operational from January 2020.</p><p>A second independent evaluation, which will consider the longer-term impacts of Mental Health Support Teams has also been commissioned through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). This project commenced in June 2023 and is due to complete June 2026. The findings will be published once a final report has been submitted and approved by the NIHR.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 20/10/2023 10:49:30 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer

1663128

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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 steps his Department plans to take to improve the way referrals are made by schools to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, in the context of Coroner Abigail Combes' prevention of future deaths report in September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	200982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>The Department is committed to improving the way referrals are made by schools to child and adolescent mental health services, through the work of mental health support teams, enhancing join up between schools and mental health services. There are now almost 400 mental health support teams in place across England, covering over three million children or around 35% of pupils in schools and colleges. We are aiming to increase this coverage to 50% by April 2025.</p><p>We are progressing work with NHS England and stakeholders to increase access to children and young people’s mental health services as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan. The National Health Service is working towards implementing a new waiting time standard for children, young people and their families/carers presenting to community-based mental health services to start to receive care within four weeks from referral.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 24/10/2023 09:40:32 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1657410

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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 steps he is taking to (a) increase access to and (b) ensure the adequacy of mental health care available to (i) school-age children and (ii) young adults.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	197296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2023 answer text <p>We are expanding and transforming children and young people’s mental health services through the NHS Long Term Plan. Funding for mental health services will increase by at least £2.3 billion a year by March 2024, as part of which an additional 345,000 children and young people will be able to access National Health Service-funded mental health support.</p><p>As part of the £500 million COVID-19 funding for the Mental Health Recovery Action Plan, we invested £79 million extra in 2021/22 to significantly expand children’s mental health services. This allowed around 22,500 more children and young people to access community health services and a faster increase in the coverage of mental health support teams in schools and colleges.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 06/09/2023 09:12:43 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan