Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the average waiting time for children with mental health issues to receive treatment in Kirklees.

Information held on the average waiting time for children and young people being treated in National Health Service funded secondary mental health services is published in NHS England’s Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard tables. Information for quarter 1 2017/18 (April to June 2017), is available at:

http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/25512/Children-and-young-people-mental-health-indicators-Q1-2017-18/xls/Children_and_young_people_mental_health_indicators_(Q1_2017-18).xlsx