Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2017 to Question 63032, and with reference to the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health of February 2016, what the reason is for the time taken for the publication of the Mental Health Workforce Strategy.
It is important to ensure this strategy is right and Health Education England has made significant progress, working with partners across the mental health system, to develop a costed multi-disciplinary workforce strategy.