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Written question asked by Helen Hayes (Labour) on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 5 January 2026 (named day). It was answered by Zubir Ahmed (Labour) on Monday, 5 January 2026 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Mental Health Services: Recruitment

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) NHS Talking Therapy trainees and (b) Band 7 CBT therapist posts have been created in (i) Lambeth and (ii) Southwark in each of the last five years.

Answer

The table attached shows the growth in the relevant subsection of the NHS Talking Therapies workforce over the five years to 2024. The high intensity workforce, which includes cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) therapists, increased by 2,582 between 2019 and 2024 to 6,913 full time equivalent therapists. The number of qualified, Band 7 or over, CBT therapists grew over the same period by 1,049 to 3,853 full time equivalents.

This data is published through the mental health national workforce census at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-national-workforce-census/

The NHS Talking Therapies workforce includes staff employed by National Health Service providers and also staff in NHS-commissioned independent, local authority, and voluntary sector providers.

The data is not available for Lambeth and Southwark as local data by service is not held centrally.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
100327
Session
2024-26
Attachment
Additional document
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Recruitment Mental health services Southwark Training Lambeth
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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