Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what new funding he intends to allocate to autism diagnostic services for young people aged between 12 and 17 years old.
Decisions on how allocations should be spent locally are for clinical commissioning groups. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on autism make it clear that families should wait no more than three months to start diagnosis. Every part of the National Health Service should be adhering to these guidelines.