{"value":{"id":1920888,"askingMemberId":5403,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2026-06-26T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2026-06-30T00:00:00","uin":"13745","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have attended NHS mental health services in each of the last five years.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4603,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2026-07-08T00:00:00","answerText":"

The following table shows the available data from the Mental Health Services Data Set on the number of people accessing National Health Service mental health services over the last five years:

Year

Number of adults accessing community mental health services with serious mental illness who received two or more contacts

Number of children and young people accessing NHS-funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services who received at least one contact

Total number of people referred to NHS Talking Therapies that accessed a course of treatment (million)

2020/21

476,160

566,762

1.02m

2021/22

508,190

674,485

1.24m

2022/23

508,210

709,559

1.22m

2023/24

599,860

788,108

1.26m

2024/25

667,220

840,063

1.21m

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