Question follow-through · 45334
Psychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 32596 on Psychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning Disability, where the commitment has been documented; and what steps his Department has taken
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 32596 on Psychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning Disability, where the commitment has been documented; and what steps his Department has taken
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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22 Apr 2025
Answer published
The 2025/26 NHS Priorities and Operational Planning Guidance was published on 30 January 2025. It 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 h...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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