Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government has taken to evaluate the effectiveness of the 2014 mental health pilots aimed at helping people with mental health problems back into work.

We have published the following evaluation reports of mental health and work pilots:

― Evaluation of the ‘Telephone Support’ Psychological Wellbeing and Research report (September 2015). A copy of the document is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/telephone-support-psychological-wellbeing-and-work-feasibility-pilot-evaluation;

― Evaluation of Group Work Psychological Wellbeing and Work Feasibility (September 2015). A copy of the document is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/group-work-psychological-wellbeing-and-work-feasibility-pilot-evaluation; and

― Evaluation of the ‘IPS in IAPT’ Psychological Wellbeing and Work Feasibility (March 2015). A copy of the document is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/helping-people-with-mental-health-problems-find-work