Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to use more trained therapists to ease the backlog of NHS patients with mental health problems.

Through the NHS Long Term Plan we are committed to transforming and expanding mental health services in England by 2023/24 so that an additional two million people can get the mental health support that they need. This commitment is backed by our plans through the NHS Long Term Plan to grow the mental health workforce by an additional 27,000 professionals, including more trained therapists to provide more people with National Health Service talking therapies, by 2023/24.