Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the trends in the number of doctors working in (a) psychiatry and (b) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the east of England.

NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics including data on psychiatrists and mental health services in the east of England which is available at the link below.

https://digital.nhs.uk/media/32979/NHS-Workforce-Statistics-July-2017-Provisional-Statistics-Doctors-by-Grade-and-Specialty/default/NHS_Workforce_Statistics__July_2017_Doctors_by_Grade_and_Specialty