Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include a statutory duty to provide early intervention strategies to (a) detect and (b) address mental health issues for (i) children and (ii) young people in (A) primary and (B) secondary schools in the forthcoming Mental Health Bill; and if he will make a statement.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Bootle on 27 January 2023 to question 129867.