Question follow-through · 51065
Autism and Learning Disability: Community Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve community support to help tackle the number of people with (a) a learning disability and (b) autism in inpatient units.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 15 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve community support to help tackle the number of people with (a) a learning disability and (b) autism in inpatient units.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
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15 May 2025
Answer published
National Health Service planning guidance, published on 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 for ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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