Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 57158

Autism and Learning Disability: Psychiatric Hospitals

Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 10 June 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle of Wight East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of people with (a) a learning disability and (b) autism in mental health hospitals.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
The latest National Health Service planning guidance, from 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 f...

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