Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting time was to access children and adolescent mental health services in Somerset in each of the last ten years.

The information regarding what the average and longest waiting times were to access children and adolescent mental health services in Somerset is shown in the attached table.

This report provides data on the number of referrals for children and young people waiting and entering treatment for mental health services along with median and 90th percentile waits.

The data provided covers the reporting period 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2024 and has been grouped at national level and at integrated care board (ICB) level for ICBs which cover Somerset. The data at ICB level has been rounded and suppressed in accordance with Mental Health Services Dataset suppression rules. NHS England have no published data for a comparable date prior to 2023/24.