Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 100661
Mental Health: Software
Tabled: 16 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026
Named DayQuestion
Dr Danny Chambers
Liberal Democrat — Winchester
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of apps which offer mental health advice via (a) chatbots and (b) large language models.
Answer
Dr Zubir AhmedThe Department has not made an assessment or estimated the number of mental health advice chatbots and large language models.Publicly available artificial intelligence (AI) applications that are not deployed by the National Health Service, such as ChatGPT...
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