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 9 April 2019 to Question 238669 on mental health services: veterans, what the outcome was for the armed forces personnel who were referred for mental Health treatment but did not enter into such treatment in each of the last four quarters.

Health is a devolved matter and as such as we are only able to answer in respect of mental health services provided in England.

NHS England does not record the reasons that former armed forces personnel do not attend services to which they are referred; either to main stream services or to the veteran specific NHS Veterans' Mental Health Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service and does not plan to record such information.