Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children who have been diagnosed with autism in (a) Lewisham Deptford constituency, (b) the London Borough of Lewisham and (c) London in each of the last 10 years.
This data is not currently available.
Indicators on autism diagnosis and post-diagnostic outcomes were included in the Mental Health Services Dataset collection for the first time from 1 April 2018. We expect this data will be published during 2019.