Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2021 to Question 53847 on Autism and Learning Disability, when he plans to publish the Government’s response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s report, The Treatment of Autistic People and People with Learning Disabilities, published on 13 July 2021.

We will respond to the Select Committee’s report as soon as possible, with full consideration of the recommendations made.

The Department is developing an action plan to implement ‘Building the right support’. The action plan will set out the actions for Government and delivery partners to improve the treatment of autistic people and people with learning disabilities, with clear owners and timescales for delivery and will inform the response to the Committee.