Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of support for autistic people with mental health problems.

As part of implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan we are increasing investment in intensive, crisis and forensic community mental health support to enable more autistic children and young adults to receive personalised care in the community and prevent avoidable admissions to inpatient services. In March 2021, we published the COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing Recovery Action Plan, which includes £31 million to improve autism and learning disability services.