Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS mental health trusts have an inadequate safety rating.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rates health and care providers using five key questions, which are: are services safe; effective; caring; responsive to people’s needs; and well led. CQC has 49 residential and community mental health trusts on its register and of these, one provider, or 2%, is rated as inadequate for CQC’s safety rating.

Through the NHS Long Term Plan, we are investing at least £2.3 billion of additional funding a year by March 2024, compared to 2018/19, to expand and transform mental health services in England so that two million more people can get the mental health support that they need.