Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 62496

Farmers: Mental Health

Tabled: 24 June 2025
Answered: 2 July 2025

Question

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2025 to Question 56077 on Farmer: Mental Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the 8,500 new mental health support workers include specialists

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
As part of our mission to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future and that is there when people need it, we are recruiting 8,500 mental health workers across child and adult mental health services to help ease pressure on busy services....

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