Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 62381

Psychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning Disability

Tabled: 24 June 2025
Answered: 7 July 2025
Named Day

Question

Shockat Adam

IndependentLeicester South

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether each Integrated Care System is required to reduce the number of (a) people with a learning disability and (b) autistic people from their area in mental health hospitals by 10 per cent withi

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
National 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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