Question follow-through · 15778
Autism: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to support (a) people diagnosed with pathological demand avoidance and (b) their carers.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 29 Nov 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to support (a) people diagnosed with pathological demand avoidance and (b) their carers.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Nov 2024
Answer published
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is most often understood as a characteristic experienced by or observed, or both, in some autistic people, but professional consensus on its status is still required. PDA is not a recognised and stand-alone diagnosis wi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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