Parents: Mental Illness

(asked on 19th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2016 to Question 22307, on parents: mental illness, if she will make it her policy to collect such data.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 22nd January 2016

The Department for Education does not intend to collect this data.

Information on parental status and mental health illness is collected through the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey managed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

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