Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of children aged 5-16 have a clinically diagnosable mental problem; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of those children who are receiving appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age.

This information is not held in the format requested. However, NHS Digital’s data shows that approximately one in six children or 17.4% aged between six and 16 years old had a probable mental health disorder in 2021.

No specific estimate has been made of the proportion of those children who are receiving such interventions.