Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for an assessment by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in each year since 2009-10.

Data on waiting times for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services has only been collected since 1 January 2016. The available data is published regularly as part of the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Statistics Monthly Reports and can be accessed here:

http://content.digital.nhs.uk/mhldsmonthly