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Mental Health Services: Birmingham

Asked by Laurence TurnerLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 6 November 2024UIN 11514

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2024 to Question 3680 on Mental Health Services: Lincolnshire, if he will provide this information for each constituency in Birmingham.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock

The following table shows the number of Mental Health Support Teams across the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB), broken down by the year in which they became operational, or are planned to become operational:

Number of teams

Total operational teams

Year the team became operational

2019/20

1

1

2020/21

1

2

2021/22

2

2022/23

2

2023/24

8

10

Year the team is planned to become operational

2024/25

n/a

2025/26

6

n/a

Source: NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board.

The ICB has advised that each team covers a cluster of schools in a broadly geographic area, but these are not defined on a parliamentary constituency or ward basis.

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