Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Government has spent on developing community services for autistic people and people with learning disabilities since (a) the publication of the Building the Right Support National Plan in 2015 and (b) the Care Quality Commission’s report on Winterbourne View in 2011.

The information requested is not held centrally in the format requested.

The following table shows NHS England’s national investment since 2019/20 to support the NHS Long Term Plan commitments for people with a learning disability and autistic people. These include the development of community health services which will help people to live in the community, help prevent people going into mental health hospitals and support timely discharge.

Source: NHS England

Note: Community Services includes:

- Community development Care (Education);

- Treatment Reviews Learning from Lives and Deaths – people with a learning disability and autistic people (LeDeR); and

- Diagnostic pathway for autistic children and young people.

The following table shows the national Funding Transfer Agreement (FTA) funding which supports the discharge of long stay patients into the community.

Source: NHS England

The Building the Right Support Delivery Board has set up a task and finish group to look at how to improve national oversight of NHS and local authority spend related to Building the Right Support.