“Whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her Department’s policies on ethnicity pay gap reporting of UK Music’s report entitled Black Music Means Business, published in March 2026.”
Asked by
Zöe Franklin
Answering Minister
the Minister for Women and Equalities
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Care (Stephen Kinnock)
By cutting mental health waiting lists and intervening earlier, we can get this country back to health and back to work. There are 2.9 million people who are economically inactive, a large proportion owing to mental health issues. Many people can be helped back into work through talking therapies. We will put a mental health professional in every school and roll out 8,500 specialists. I would be happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss the matter further.