Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in England have been diagnosed with (a) depression and (b) anxiety since March 2020.

NHS Digital collects information in the mental health services dataset on people of all ages in contact with secondary mental health services in England who have a recorded diagnosis of a mental disorder, or who have been referred for talking and psychological therapies for conditions such as depression or anxiety.

However, NHS Digital has advised that recording levels of such diagnoses in the dataset are currently too low for any meaningful interpretation.