Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many teams were set up as part of the implemented Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme pilot; and what the cost is to the public purse of each individual Mental Health Support Team.

The first tranche of 58 mental health support teams were set up as trailblazers in 2018/19, with 12 teams piloting a four-week waiting time for access to specialist National Health Service children’s and young people’s mental health services. Further tranches of mental health support teams were announced in July 2019, May 2020 and September 2021, totalling approximately 400 mental health teams planned by 2023/24.

Information on the cost of individual mental health support teams is not collected centrally. NHS Long Term Plan funding for the set up and delivery of mental health support teams has been distributed across NHS regions using a fair-share model based on weighted population.