Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) availability and (b) average waiting times for therapeutic services for mental health conditions in Sutton Coldfield.

Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which covers the Sutton Coldfield area, reports that waiting times for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services remain above the national target for access. In quarter four of 2019/20 (the most recent published figures), across the CCG’s area, 94% of people received support within six weeks, against a national standard of 75%.