PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(16 June 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals made to mental health services in (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23 and (c) 2023-24 waited longer than 12 months between referral and second contact.

Asked by:
Josh Fenton-Glynn (Labour)

The following table shows the number of referrals received by Mental Health services that waited longer than 12 months between referral and second contact for the years 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24:

Year	Number of referrals
2021/22	322,075
2022/23	394,179
2023/24	448,154

Source: Mental Health Services Data Set.

In addition, the following table shows the number of referrals received by NHS Talking Therapies that waited longer than 12 months between referral and second contact for the years 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24:

Year	Number of referrals
2021/22	22,874
2022/23	20,520
2023/24	21,981

Source: NHS Talking Therapies.

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