Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to introduce specific mental health services for 18-25 year olds.

The NHS Long Term Plan and ‘Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision: a Green Paper’ (2017) set out an ambitious transformation programme for children and young people’s mental health. This includes significant investment in extending current services models to create a comprehensive offer for 0-25 year olds across health, social care, education and the voluntary sector. We are introducing the first mental health waiting time standards for children and young people so that more people have timely access to care. This will ensure that by 2023/24, an additional 345,000 children and young people will be able to access support via National Health Service-funded mental health services and school or college-based Mental Health Support Teams and 24 hours a day, seven days a week mental health crisis care services will be available throughout the country