Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the additional funding allocated to mental health charities in response to the covid-19 outbreak has been used to provide direct counselling support; and how many vulnerable people have been supported through that funding.

We have invested more than £10 million in supporting national and local mental health charities, enabling them to continue their vital work in supporting people across the country during the pandemic. Data is not available showing how much of this funding has been used to provide direct counselling support or how many vulnerable people have been supported by these organisations.