Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 20 of the NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20 – 2023/24, whether baselines on access to mental health services for 18 to 25 year olds have been validated and published.

Under the NHS Long Term Plan, we are committed to increasing access and improving experience of care for 18-25 year olds. All sustainability and transformation partnerships have been asked to cross-validate data on baseline access for 18-25 year olds from the mental health services and Improving Access to Psychological Therapies datasets, against locally held data sources.

The validation and analysis is ongoing and a baseline access rate has not yet been published.