Skip to main content

Mental Health Services

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 902442, tabled on 17 April 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to improve access to mental health services.

Answered on

24 April 2024

We have been expanding and transforming mental healthcare

In 2022/23 3.6 million people received secondary mental healthcare, and 1.2 million people accessed NHS talking therapies

This is an increase in the number of people receiving NHS mental health support of around 30% in just three years.

Named day
Named day questions only occur in the House of Commons. The MP tabling the question specifies the date on which they should receive an answer. MPs may not table more than five named day questions on a single day.