Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to ensure patients with Huntington’s Disease have access to community mental health services when psychiatric symptoms are present.

We have been made aware of instances of people with Huntington’s disease experiencing difficulty in accessing mental health services. NHS England has circulated a statement to integrated care services (ICSs) to say that mental health services should be offered based on clinical need and people should not be excluded due to coexisting conditions where the service is clinically appropriate.

We are also investing at least £2.3 billion of additional funding a year by March 2024, compared to 2018/19, to expand and transform mental health services in England so that two million more people including those with Huntington’s disease can get the mental health support that they need.