Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of veterans that have received mental health support in each of the last five years.
Veterans in England can access mental health support through Operation Courage Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service (TILS), the veteran’s specialist mental health service and the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service. The data for veterans accessing TILS and IAPT in each of the last five years is shown in the following table.
Financial year | Number of TILS assessments | Total number in receipt of TILS/ IAPT treatment |
2017/2018 | 1,649 | 17,271 |
2018/2019 | 2,120 | 18,033 |
2019/2020 | 2,569 | 18,375 |
2020/2021 | 2,391 | 10,793 |
April to August 2021 | 1,052 | 4,294 |
It should be noted that IAPT data reports veterans who received treatment and declared their veteran status.