Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the routine collection and publication of data on ADHD referrals, waiting times and outcomes, including by the Office for National Statistics.

The ADHD Taskforce’s evidence and recommendations are informing the Independent Review into the Prevalence and Support for Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism, which will build on these. The final report is due to be published shortly.

The Department is working with NHS England to consider the independent ADHD Taskforce’s final report and deliver some of its recommendations, such as improving data, enhancing mental health support teams in schools, and improving commissioning.

To improve data, NHS England is implementing a national attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) data improvement plan. As part of this, NHS England first published management information on ADHD waits nationally in May 2025 and first published sub-national information in May 2026. Additionally, technical guidance has been released to integrated care boards to enhance the recording of ADHD data, aiming to improve the quality of ADHD waits data and enable more localised reporting.