Psychiatric Hospitals: Autism and Learning Disability
The question
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) with a learning disability, including those who may also be autistic and (ii) who are autistic, with no learning disability, in mental health inpatient care based on Assuring Transformation data extracted from 31 March 2024.
Answered by Dr Zubir Ahmed
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 in mental health inpatient care.
As Assuring Transformation is a live data collection system, late reporting will tend to increase the inpatient count when data are refreshed in subsequent months. The inpatient count in the latest month is therefore expected to rise and should be treated as provisional.
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