Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring Integrated Care Boards to publish plans for meeting the commitments relating to community provision for (a) autistic people and (b) people with learning disabilities set out in the Building the Right Support Action Plan, published on 19 August 2022.

There are no current plans to make an assessment.

Each integrated care board implements a five year joint forward plan with partner trusts and Foundation Trusts. This will include the needs of the entire local population, including people with a learning disability and autistic people.

The NHS Long Term Plan 2019 sets out our commitment to invest in intensive, crisis and forensic community support to support more people with a learning disability and autistic people to receive personalised care in the community, closer to home, and reduce preventable admissions to inpatient services. Every local health system will be expected to use some of this growing community health services investment to have a seven day specialist multidisciplinary service and crisis care.

To support our approach of devolving power, the government has set up the Hewitt Review to consider the balance between integrated care system accountability, targets, and performance.