Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve the mental health of children and young people from a BAME background who identify as LGBT+.

Access to mental health services is based on clinical need. It is important that the National Health Service accommodates the requirements of vulnerable groups through staff training, awareness raising and reasonable adjustments to services.

To improve the offer to all children, the Government published ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’ on 4 December. This sets out an ambitious set of proposals to transform support for children and young people’s mental health, including those who identify as Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender+ (LGBT+).