Question follow-through · 95622
Mental Health and Neurodiversity: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is undertaking a review into the prevalence of the over-diagnosis of mental health conditions and neurodivergence.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 15 Dec 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is undertaking a review into the prevalence of the over-diagnosis of mental health conditions and neurodivergence.
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced on 4 December 2025, via a Written Ministerial Statement, the launch of an independent review into the prevalence and support for mental health conditions, attention deficit hyp...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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