Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mental health nurses there are employed by the local NHS trust in Southwark.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services data on the number of mental health nurses employed in the National Health Service in England.

The data for the number of mental health nurses employed in the NHS trusts in Southwark as at 31 July 2016 are available via the following weblink:

http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/22896/Qualified-mental-health-nurses-in-specified-NHS-Trusts-in-Southwark---July-2016/xls/Qualified_mental_health_nurses_in_specified_NHS_Trusts_in_Southwark_-_July_2016.xlsx