Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there are no financial incentives for people with a learning disability and/or autism to be admitted to inpatient units.

People should only be admitted to a mental health inpatient unit when there is a clinical need which cannot be treated in the community. The Building the Right Support Delivery Board has been established to drive further progress in reducing the number of people with a learning disability and autistic people in specialist inpatient settings through the development of community-based support. A priority for the Board is examining issues with funding flows, including assessing any financial disincentives preventing progress.