Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding has been allocated to reducing waiting times for mental health treatments.

While we have not specifically made an allocation for reducing waiting times for mental health treatment, the NHS Long Term Plan invests at least an additional £2.3 billion a year into mental health services by 2023/24. This will ensure an additional 345,000 children and young people and 380,000 more adults have timely access to quality mental health support.

We are also providing around an additional £500 million in 2021/22 to support people’s mental health in 2021/22 and to address waiting times for mental health services.