| Heading: |
Mental Health Services: Children |
| Question ID: |
1808167 |
| UIN: |
56405 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5040 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Liz Jarvis
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| Asking Member handle: |
lizjarvisuk
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@lizjarvisuk
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce staffing shortages in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
This year the Department is investing an extra £688 million in children and young people’s mental health services. This will allow us to hire more staff, deliver more talking therapies, and get waiting lists down through our Plan for Change. Early interve... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |