Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of perinatal depression there have been recorded in each (a) region and (b) clinical commissioning group area in each year since 2010.

The information is not collected in the requested format.

It is important to note that perinatal mental illness includes a range of conditions, including antenatal depression, postnatal depression, maternal obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and postpartum psychosis.

NHS Digital has started to publish monthly experimental statistics collected via the Mental Health Dataset (MHDS) which include basic caseload measures for community based specialist perinatal mental health services.

NHS Digital is working with system partners to further develop perinatal mental health metrics for the MHDS collection.