To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of mental health support available for people from the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community.
Answered on
8 June 2023
We have not made such an assessment. Integrated care boards are responsible for the provision of mental health services and whether they are adequate to meet the mental health needs of people from the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in their local populations.
We are also expanding and transforming National Health Service mental health services in England, backed by additional funding of £2.3 billion a year by March 2024. This will allow an extra two million people, including people from the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community, to get the mental health support that they need.
Through its mental health equalities strategy, NHS England is working closely with patients, carers, health system leaders and other key stakeholders to bridge the gaps for communities, such the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community, fairing worse than others in mental health services.