Liz Kendall – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liz Kendall on 2016-04-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) average and (b) longest length of time was that patients with a diagnosis of autism who were (i) adults and (ii) children were held on mental health wards in each of the last three years because they could not get a suitable living placement.

Alistair Burt

The total number of adults with a diagnosis of autism who have been held on mental health wards was five in 2014 and 10 in 2015.

The table below provides average and longest length for adults with a diagnosis of autism who were held on mental health wards in each of the last two years because they could not get a suitable living placement.

Data for children for this same period cannot be provided as the total is fewer than five in each given year and cannot be made available in order to minimise disclosure risks associated with small numbers.