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 2 May 2018 to Question 138009, what estimate he has made of the cost of answering that Question; and if he will publish a breakdown of those costs.

In order to answer the question it would require a significant amount of new analysis to interrogate the Mental Health Services Data Set. NHS Digital has determined the cost of answering the Question to be approximately £2,854, consisting of £2,650 for the cost of producing the analysis, checking and formatting the reply, and £204 for the cost of manager validation and internal clearances.