Children: Autism

(asked on 7th September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many diagnoses there have been of autism among pre-school children in the last five years.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 12th September 2016

The National Health Service does not collect data on the number of children of pre-school age who have been diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

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