Oral QuestionDepartment of Health and Social Care

What recent assessment he has made of the effect of the level of mental health workforce vacancies on the quality of mental health services.

Tabled: 4 March 2020Answered: 10 March 2020

Asked by

Fleur Anderson

LabourPutney

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Answer from Hansard

Yvette Cooper

My hon. Friend makes an important point. There is a serious problem of injunctions, non-molestation orders and protection orders not being treated properly. That is why we are introducing Raneem’s law, which includes stronger protection orders and specialists in 999 control rooms.