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Written question asked by Shockat Adam (Independent (affiliation)) on Friday, 17 April 2026, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 21 April 2026. It was answered by Zubir Ahmed (Labour) on Wednesday, 29 April 2026 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, pursuant to the answers of 3 and 7 July 2025 to questions 62380 and 62381, what figures his Department used as the 31 March 2024 baselines to measure progress on reducing the number of adults (i) with a learning disability, including those who may also be autistic and (ii) who are autistic, with no learning disability, in mental health inpatient care based on Assuring Transformation data extracted from 31 March 2024.

Answer

The table attached presents an extract from the Assuring Transformation dataset, which shows the figures the Department uses as the 31 March 2024 baselines to measure progress on reducing the number of adults with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health inpatient care.

As Assuring Transformation is a live data collection system, late reporting will tend to increase the inpatient count when data are refreshed in subsequent months. The inpatient count in the latest month is therefore expected to rise and should be treated as provisional.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
128116
Session
2024-26
Attachment
Additional Document
Related items
Subjects
Autism Learning disability Psychiatric hospitals
Contains statistics
Yes
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