Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2021 to Question 126931 on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Children and Young People, what monitoring his Department undertakes on the length of stays in institutions contracted to provide national obsessive compulsive disorder Tier 4 services for children and young people; and for what reasons the average length of such stays in such institutions is not monitored.

National obsessive compulsive disorder tier 4 services are commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement and delivered by three mental health providers. Information on length of stays is not collected at national level and we understand that individual providers monitor the length of stay of patients as part of the national service.