Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many school children are waiting for autism assessment in Lincolnshire.

The information is not held centrally in the format requested but may be held by individual providers or integrated care boards (ICBs). Some relevant information is available on autism assessment waiting times for the NHS Lincolnshire ICB.

In the NHS Lincolnshire ICB, the Autism Waiting Time Statistics published by NHS England show that the number of patients aged between zero and 17 years old with an open suspected autism referral, namely diagnosis not yet complete, was 70 at the end of March 2025, which is the latest available data.

Data on children and young people in this dataset is expected to be an underestimate and caution should be used when interpreting these figures since, at this stage, they are experimental rather than official statistics.