Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) cost of appointments missed by children and young people accessing child and adolescent mental health services in the last 12 months.
The number of appointments missed by children and young people accessing child and adolescent mental health services for 2016/17 was 291,624. The cost of missed appointments is not collected.