PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services (19 July 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Health Foundation's estimate that there could be 11 per cent more referrals a year for mental health services in the next three years as a result of the covid-19 outbreak, as set out in Health Foundation's analysis entitled Spending Review 2020: Managing uncertainty, published on 24 November 2020; and if he will take steps to respond to that analysis.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

We have no specific plans to do so. However, we continue to work with the National Health Service, Public Health England and others to gather evidence and assess the potential longer-term mental health impacts of COVID-19.

Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
22 July 2021