Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2021 to Question 53847 on Mental Health Services: Autism and Learning Disability, what his timetable is for the implementation of the Building the Right Support Action Plan.

Each action in the Building the Right Support Action Plan will have a clear timescale so that the progress of implementation can be monitored. These actions will support the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment to achieve a 50% reduction in the number of autistic people and people with a learning disability in specialist inpatient settings by 2023/24. We will publish the Building the Right Support Action Plan as soon as possible.