Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the allocation of an additional £79 million to children and young people’s mental health services in 2021-22, how many areas will get Mental Health Support Team help; and what proportion of those areas are planned to have that help in place by April 2023.

We plan to establish a further 112 mental health support teams in 2021/22 and we will announce the areas in which they will be located in due course. Once established, this will bring the total number of mental health support teams to around 400, which we estimate will be available to three million children and young people or around 35% of pupils in England by 2023.