Question follow-through · 53951
Police: Neurodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of training available to police forces for engaging with neurodiverse suspects.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jun 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of training available to police forces for engaging with neurodiverse suspects.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jun 2025
Answer published
Training on mental ill health and autism is already integrated throughout the initial police learning programme which all new recruits must complete.Policing is operationally independent, and it is a matter for the chief constables of each force to decide...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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