| Heading: |
Mental Health: Diagnosis |
| Question ID: |
1785793 |
| UIN: |
39039 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4493 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Richard Burgon
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| Asking Member handle: |
richardburgon
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@richardburgon
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his comments in an interview on the BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme on 16 March 2025, on what evidential basis he said that there is an overdiagnosis of mental health c |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
2025-03-27 |
| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
There is no doubt that many people are genuinely struggling with poor mental health and wellbeing. The Government is committed to reducing mental ill-health through earlier intervention and prevention. Some clinicians argue that there has been an increase... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |