| Heading: |
Mental Health Services: Fathers |
| Question ID: |
1784547 |
| UIN: |
38281 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-13 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5167 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Gregor Poynton
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| Asking Member handle: |
gregorpoynton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@gregorpoynton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce initiatives to include expectant and new fathers in mental health checks as part of routine antenatal and postnatal care. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-24 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
Support is already available for expectant and new fathers and partners who experience mental health difficulties during the perinatal period. Partners of women accessing specialist perinatal and maternal mental health services should be offered an eviden... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |