Health Services: Learning Disability
(asked on 1st April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been paid from the public purse to private companies for the management of Assessment and Treatment Units in England in each financial year since 2011.
Data on the number of injuries sustained at assessment and treatment units in England is not collected centrally.
485 people out of 2,295 mental health inpatients with learning disability or autism, recorded in February 2019, were 100 kilometres or more from home.
The following table shows learning disability and autism spectrum disorder specialised commissioning spend for 2017/18 in the independent sector.
| 2017-18 £ million |
Learning disabilities | 80.0 |
autism | 28.7 |
Total learning disability and autism | 108.7 |
Prior to 2017-18, data was not collected centrally.