Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he made of the prevalance of diagnosed mental health conditions in each National Statistics socio-economics classification category in each of the last 10 years.

Public Health England assessed the prevalence of common mental health disorders in the population by age group, sex and deprivation quintile. Estimates are based on data from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, a survey of mental health problems taken every seven years and last undertaken in 2014.

Estimates show an increase of common mental disorders in men and women with increasing deprivation, across all age groups (16-24, 25-65 and 65 and over).

The analysis by Public Health England is published by NHS Digital and can be viewed at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/find-data-and-publications/supplementary-information/2019-supplementary-information-files/supplementary-analysis-of-prevalence-of-common-mental-health-disorders-by-age-group-gender-and-deprivation