Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the average waiting times for access to child and adult mental health services.

This information is not collected centrally.

Experimental data to monitor the waiting time target for people experiencing a first episode of psychosis has been collected by NHS England since December 2015 and is available at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/eip-waiting-times/

Some experimental data from the Mental Health Services Data Set relevant to waiting times standards is also published by NHS Digital. The most recent figures are at:

http://content.digital.nhs.uk/searchcatalogue?productid=23263&returnid=1741