Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health (a) therapists and (b) supervisors worked in the NHS in each year between 2010 and 2017.

NHS Digital provides workforce statistics and mental health supervisors are not coded in the Electronic Staff Record occupation code manual, therefore we are unable to provide data for mental health supervisors. The following table shows mental health therapists as defined by care setting and level in the National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England as at 30 September each specified year and latest data as at 31 October 2017, full time equivalent (FTE).

Source: Provisional NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital

Note:

Mental health therapists are defined as the staff groups working in clinical psychology, including Consultant Therapist/Scientist, Manager, Scientist, Technician, and the staff groups working in Psychotherapy, including consultant Therapist/Scientist, manager, Therapist and Scientist.