Written question asked by Tahir Ali (Labour) on Wednesday, 13 December 2023, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 18 December 2023. It was answered by Maria Caulfield (Conservative) on Monday, 18 December 2023 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Psychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning Disability

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the data analysis by Mencap on the number of people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people in mental health hospitals, published on 31 March 2023.

Answer: ‘Assuring Transformation’ data is published monthly by NHS England to monitor the number of people with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health hospitals. It is regularly reviewed and discussed by the ministerially chaired Building the Right Support Delivery Board to inform actions to drive further progress in reducing the number of autistic people and people with a learning disability in mental health inpatient settings.

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