Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people in England referred for talking therapies for treatment of depression and anxiety in the second quarter of 2014-15 started their treatment within (a) six and (b) 18 weeks.
We do not collect the data in the format requested. The following table shows the number of days from referral to first treatment within the reporting period Quarter 2 2014/15 for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services in England:
| Total with first treatment in Quarter 2, 2014/15 | Of which waited 28 days or less | Of which waited between 29 and 56 days | Of which waited between 57 and 90 days | Of which waited more than 90 days |
England | 191,532 | 122,909 | 35,151 | 14,497 | 18,975 |
We will be publishing national waiting times data for IAPT, reporting by six and 18 weeks for the first time on 21 April 2015.