PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Depressive Illnesses: Mental Health Services (12 July 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make additional funding available to tackle depression in the context of NHS figures on the rise in the number of adults receiving antidepressants.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

We are investing an additional £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 to expand mental health services in England to allow a further two million people to access mental health support, including those with depression.

We have also committed to increasing access to talking and psychological therapies through the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme to ensure that 1.9 million adults can access support for common mental health conditions, such as depression, by 2023/24.

Answered by:
Gillian Keegan (Conservative)
18 July 2022