Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on the total number of qualified staff working in mental health services.

NHS Digital published an experimental set of statistics and analysis on the National Health Service mental health workforce measures and numbers in January 2018. These figures are updated quarterly, and the latest data, as at March 2018 shows that there are 95,712 full time equivalent professionally qualified clinical staff working in mental health.

NHS Digital, the Department and Health Education England are working together to refine the definitions used to count those working in mental health.