Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been treated for mental health issues on child and adolescent wards in hospitals since 23 March 2020; and what was the figure for such treatment from 23 March 2019 to 22 March 2020.

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Source: Mental Health Services Dataset

Notes:

1. Treatment for mental health issues has been defined as people with a hospital stay in a ward setting categorised as a child and adolescent mental health ward.
2. The total provided for 23 March 2020 to 30 November 2020 represents the latest available data.
3. This data for both ranges includes patients whose hospital spell began prior to 23 March but whose hospital treatment continued after that date.