Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase funding for psychology services in the NHS.
We have committed to increasing funding to allow an additional 380,000 people to access Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services per year by 2023/24. In response to the pandemic, we invested an additional £38 million in 2021/22 to ensure that IAPT services were equipped to deliver access, waiting time and recovery standards.