Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 51065

Autism and Learning Disability: Community Care

Tabled: 8 May 2025
Answered: 15 May 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle of Wight East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve community support to help tackle the number of people with (a) a learning disability and (b) autism in inpatient units.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
National Health Service planning guidance, published on 30 January 2025, includes a focus on improving mental health and learning disability care and contains the objective to deliver a minimum 10% reduction in the use of mental health inpatient care for ...

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