Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Mental Health Champions his Department has established since the publication of the Five Year Forward View in Mental Health in February 2016.

Since February 2016, Time to Change has registered 1,871 champions. These champions are adults with lived experience of mental health, who lead the Time to Change anti-stigma movement and provide peer support.

In order to contribute to the relevant recommendation in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health to establish mental health champions in each community, since April 2016 they have also had 84 young champions in place as part of their children and young people’s programme.

In total, Time to Change now have 8,411 champions to date.