Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled, Improving Children and Young People's Mental Health Services, published in October 2018 by the NAO, if he will make it his policy to (a) implement the recommendations in that report and (b) establish quantifiable objectives to monitor progress their implementation.

On the basis of the National Audit Office report in October 2018, on 17 December 2018 the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) took evidence and then published a report ‘Mental health services for children and young people’ with recommendations. The Government’s response to the PAC report was published in April 2019 and contains the response to each recommendation, including a commitment to provide annual updates to the Committee until April 2022 on a number of matters.

The PAC report and the Government’s response is available at the following link:

https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/inquiry12/