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 assessment he has made of the success of the Building the Right Support policy as of 7 December 2021.

An objective of Building the Right Support is to achieve a 50% reduction in the number of people with a learning disability and autistic people in specialist inpatient settings by 2023/24 through the development of community alternatives. The latest Assuring Transformation data shows the number of people with a learning disability and autistic people in specialist inpatient settings at the end of October 2021 was 2,070 - a 28.5% net reduction since March 2015. The data shows variation across integrated care systems and transforming care partnerships, with some areas already having achieved inpatient rates at the 2023/24 target. An evaluation of Building the Right Support, commissioned by NHS England, was published on 22 November 2021.