Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of backlog maintenance has been in NHS mental health services in each of the last ten years (a) in total and (b) by category of risk.

Information on backlog maintenance was not collected in the format requested prior to 2015/16. Since 2015/16, data has been categorised by site type, which allows an estimate of the level of backlog maintenance in the mental health estate. The attached table shows the level of backlog maintenance in total and by category of risk in sites categorised as ‘Mental Health’, ‘Mental Health (including Specialist services)’, ‘Learning Disabilities’ and ‘Mental Health and Learning Disabilities’.