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Insomnia: Lancashire

Asked by Mr Andrew SnowdenConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 8 July 2025UIN 64527

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2025 to Question 60968 on Insomnia: Lancashire, what data his Department holds on the number of people who accessed NHS Talking Therapies in relation to chronic insomnia in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) Lancashire in the last five years.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock

The following table shows the number if patients referred to NHS Talking Therapies with insomnia in Fylde, and the number of patients referred with insomnia to NHS Talking Therapies in Lancashire, from 2021 to 2025:

Year

Patients referred with insomnia in Fylde

Patients referred with insomnia in Lancashire

2021

*

*

2022

*

*

2023

*

*

2024

*

15

2025

*

5

Source: Talking Therapies Dataset, NHS England

Notes:

  1. data for 2025 is from January to April; and
  2. the data has been rounded and suppressed in accordance with standard NHS Talking Therapies suppression rules, which means that values between zero and four are suppressed, represented by an asterisk, and other values are rounded to the nearest five at sub national level.

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