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Psychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answers of 3 and 7 July 2025 to questions 62380 and 62381, what figures his Department used as the 31 March 2024 baselines to measure progress on reducing the number of adults (i) w

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
17 Apr 2026
Target answer date
21 Apr 2026
Answer
29 Apr 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 17 Apr 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answers of 3 and 7 July 2025 to questions 62380 and 62381, what figures his Department used as the 31 March 2024 baselines to measure progress on reducing the number of adults (i) w

  2. 21 Apr 2026

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  3. 29 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    The table attached presents an extract from the Assuring Transformation dataset, which shows the figures the Department uses as the 31 March 2024 baselines to measure progress on reducing the number of adults with a learning disability and autistic people...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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