Mental Health
Mental health services, CAMHS, suicide prevention, eating disorders, psychiatric care
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 83PMQs 2026-09-09
Hertfordshire has one of the lowest numbers of mental health in-patient beds per head in England. When patients, including some young people, are in crisis, they can be sent hundreds of miles away, wh...
PMQs 2026-09-09
I thank the Prime Minister for his commitment to mental health and to building a country that acts sooner when people need help. Five years ago, I lost one of my best friends, Sophie, to suicide after...
PMQs 2026-09-09
It is unbelievable that the Prime Minister would say that. He is clearly unwilling. We need to fund our defence, not spend all our money on welfare. I cannot believe that he would actually say that. H...
PMQs 2026-09-02
The Labour Government have already delivered real investment for Bedford, including our community diagnostic centre, urgent care centre and funding for the Putnoe walk-in centre. I was pleased to open...
PMQs 2026-07-15
My constituent and Scottish football superfan Craig Ferguson has just returned home after walking for 108 days across 3,000 miles in the United States to raise funds for Scottish Action for Mental Hea...
PMQs 2026-07-01
Too many people wait too long for NHS mental health care, with over 6,000 adults waiting up to two years. In Sunderland, grassroots groups offer support, but they can't substitute for timely, NHS-fund...
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The British Standards Institution is 125 years old this year. I am proud to have been working closely with it to produce and publish BS 30480: the world's first free standard on suicide and the workpl...
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Every year, about 160 university students commit suicide. That is more than three every week, yet there is no established duty of care on universities to protect the health, safety and welfare of thei...
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Will the Prime Minister personally commit to meeting me to discuss how we can prevent others from experiencing the unimaginable pain that Rob's family and friends have endured?...
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I recently met Graham and Malcolm, who bravely shared their lived experience of addiction to monkey dust. They highlighted the challenges they faced due to a lack of joined-up working between local se...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 623Topical Questions 2026-09-09
Ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, it is important that we recognise the heightened risk of suicide among autistic women and girls, who are too often overlooked and diagnosed too late. Autistic pe...
Tackling Violence against Women and Girls 2026-09-09
Does the Minister agree that organisations such as Project Salama are important for joined-up support for victims of DA? How will the Government ensure that domestic abuse services, mental health serv...
Rough Sleeping 2026-09-07 (2)
Light for Life, a homelessness charity in Southport, tells me that some of the rough sleepers with the most complex needs are precisely the people least able to navigate the bureaucracy associated wit...
Lidos 2026-09-03
There is a very passionate group of people in Winchester who have long campaigned for a lido to be built in the old leisure centre. They are very excited that one of the proposals is a lido. Could the...
Social Prescribing 2026-07-14
Those organisations are doing incredible work, turning lives around, particularly for those with mental health challenges, but their projects receive absolutely no funding, although the National Acade...
Social Prescribing 2026-07-14
I agree that social prescribers do a fantastic job. I recently met members of Veterans Outdoors near Totnes, and visited the Vounder Therapy Garden at the Eden Project through the parliamentary knowle...
Health of Children and Young People 2026-07-14
Will the Minister meet with me and the alliance to discuss how we can secure better access to mental health services, fair and consistent prosthetic provision and lifelong joined-up pathways for peopl...
Health of Children and Young People 2026-07-14
What steps is the minister taking to help improve the health of children and young people? The Government are committed to making this generation of children the healthiest ever through initiatives li...
Mental Health Support for Police Officers 2026-07-13
Does she agree that either the Home Office or police forces need to have data on PTSD in order to understand the scale of the problem and support our officers accordingly? I am concerned that without ...
Mental Health Support for Police Officers 2026-07-13
What steps will the Minister take to ensure police forces adopt genuinely trauma-informed misconduct processes for officers who are victims of sexual assault, rape and domestic abuse? I am highlightin...