Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2023 to Question 191564 on Mental Health Services: Children and Young People, what the average waiting time is for a young person to access mental health services in Wirral South constituency.

This information is not collected centrally at present as national access and waiting times standards for these services in England has not yet been defined or set.

We are working with NHS England on the introduction of new waiting time standards for both children and young people’s community-based mental health services and urgent referrals across all ages to community-based mental health crisis services, as part of its clinically-led review of National Health Service access standards. A date for their introduction has not yet been set.