Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the long-term effect of the covid-19 pandemic on mental health in the UK.

We continue to work with the National Health Service, Public Health England and others to consider the emerging evidence and what might need to be done to further support people’s mental health. A cross-Government group has been established to consider and respond to the longer term impacts of the pandemic on mental health and wellbeing and will set out its plans in due course.