Question follow-through · 57158
Autism and Learning Disability: Psychiatric Hospitals
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.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2025
Question tabled
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.
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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