Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is on track to provide senior mental health lead training to all state schools and colleges by 2025.

The government is making good progress on its commitment to offer senior mental health lead training to all state-funded schools and colleges in England by 2025. The department has invested over £9.5 million in financial year 2021-22 to fund senior mental health lead training grants for over 8,000 eligible schools and colleges. As of 14 January, over 3,500 senior leads are estimated to have begun their training. Our position on issuing grants for financial year 2022-23 will be confirmed later in the spring.