Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people with (a) autism, (b) a mental health diagnosis and (c) other diagnoses and who require supported accommodation can live near immediate family members in (i) Brighton and Hove and (ii) other areas; and if he will make a statement.

In the adult social care reform white paper, we committed to incentivise the supply of supported housing for older people, people with a physical disability, people with a learning disability, autistic people, and people with mental ill-health, through the Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund. £213 million will be available over the next three years through this Fund. This is alongside a new £300 million investment to connect housing with health and care, to boost the supply of supported housing, and to increase local expenditure on services for those in supported housing, in all local places.

Under Mental Health Act reforms, we propose creating a new duty on commissioners to ensure that there are sufficient community-based services for autistic people and people with a learning disability so they can live full lives in their community.