Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of his Department's social prescribing measures on (a) mental health and (b) wellbeing.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research is currently evaluating the impact of social prescribing link workers. The Government has also invested in the ‘Using green social prescribing to prevent and tackle mental ill health’ project. An evaluation has been commissioned and additional research elements include a scalability study and three trials testing the effectiveness of green social prescribing interventions on mental health outcomes.