Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services are based within a primary care setting.

Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services are provided and commissioned locally and therefore this information is not held centrally; however as part of the IAPT expansion to increase access to an additional 600,000 per year 3,000 new mental health therapists will be co-located in primary care as set out in the General Practice Forward View. During 2016/17 and 2017/18, a targeted group of geographies will work to develop the evidence base for implementing new integrated IAPT services at scale, supported by wider investment in training and infrastructure. From 2018/19 integrated services will be rolled out across all clinical commissioning groups in line with the published trajectories.