Autism and Learning Disability: Psychiatric Hospitals
Commons · Question 57158 · Tabled 3 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Joe Robertson
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
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 10 Jun 2025
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...