Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Core 24 mental health teams were available to patients in England in (a) March 2017 and (b) October 2017; and in which NHS hospitals those teams were based.

The latest available information, to be published in the 3rd national survey of liaison psychiatry, conducted in June 2016 by Health Education England showed that 17 acute hospitals were meeting the core 24 service level. This information, showing which hospitals are meeting the standard, will be published in due course.

NHS England has since awarded funding to 74 more hospital sites to reach the core 24 level by 2019, subject to recruitment of staff.