Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people with autism who are in receipt of a personal health budget.

Data on recipients of personal health budgets is collected from clinical commissioning groups on a voluntary basis. Numbers are not currently collected for specific conditions so an estimate cannot be made on the number of people with autism who are in receipt of a personal health budget. NHS England is exploring options for formal data collection on personal health budgets and consideration is being given to the cohorts of recipients that will be included in this data collection.