Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the UK are prescribed anti-depressants.

The most recent data was published on 6 July 2023 and can be found here NHS releases mental health medicines statistics for 2022/2023 in England (nhsbsa.nhs.uk)

Prescriptions do not state the purpose for which they are written, so there may be instances where these medicines are used for other conditions.