Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 62380
Psychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning Disability
Tabled: 24 June 2025
Answered: 3 July 2025
Named DayQuestion
Shockat Adam
Independent — Leicester South
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what baseline figure his Department will use to measure progress on reducing the number of (a) people with a learning disability and (b) autistic people in mental health hospitals by 10 per cent wi
Answer
Stephen KinnockNational Health Service planning guidance for 2025/26 includes a focus on improving care for people with a learning disability and autistic people and contains the objective to deliver a minimum 10% reduction in the use of mental health inpatient care for...
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