Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS England's proposal that children, young people and their families and carers presenting to community-based mental health services should start to receive help within four weeks from referral, whether his Department has set at date for implementing that proposal.

We are working with NHS England on the introduction of this new waiting time standard for children and young people’s community-based mental health services as part of its clinically led review of National Health Service access standards. A date for its introduction has not yet been set.