Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what analysis they have undertaken of the relationship between socioeconomic disadvantage and the prevalence of mental health conditions, particularly among children and young people.

The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Research recently completed and funded by the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre has found that socioeconomic inequalities in children’s mental health are evident by age five and persist throughout childhood and adolescence. Further information is available at the following link:

https://oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/study-finds-socioeconomic-inequalities-in-childrens-mental-health-are-evident-by-age-five/