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1006006

registered interest
date	13/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Autism: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children aged between 5 and 11 were diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	190806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The number of children who have been diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/11/2018 16:22:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

926998

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Autism: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to reduce waiting times for autism assessments for children.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	155244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>Children should not have to face long waits for an autism diagnosis and we are continuing to work with our partners to help localities address long waiting times for an autism diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p>We have included autism indicators in the Mental Health Services Dataset, with data beginning to be collected from 1 April 2018. The data will include waiting times for an assessment for autism to begin. The current plan is to publish the dataset after a year of data has been collected.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/06/2018 10:00:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

894939

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Autism: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure greater awareness among parents of the symptoms of autism in children.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	139455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The NHS Choices website provides information on autism. Health professionals such as general practitioners and health visitors may also be a source of advice for parents, before any formal referral for a diagnostic assessment is made.</p><p> </p><p>The Children and Families Act 2014 requires all local authorities to provide special educational needs and disability information, advice and support services for their local families. This includes information on autism support.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/05/2018 15:13:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

887072

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Autism: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Government programmes that assist low-income families who are supporting children with autism.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	136640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made by this Department of the effectiveness of Government programmes in specifically assisting low-income families with autistic children.</p><p> </p><p>The special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms in the Children’s and Families Act 2014 have brought benefits for all autistic children and young people and their families by providing for a system of support across education, health and social care to ensure that services are organised with the needs and preferences of the child and their family at the centre of the process.</p><p> </p><p>Reforms introduced by the Act include the publication of local offers of SEND services by local authorities, the introduction of streamlined education, health and care needs assessments and Education, Health and Care Plans, which set out in one place the support from education, health and care services children and young people will receive.</p><p> </p><p>Since May 2016, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission have been inspecting local areas on their effectiveness in fulfilling their new duties for children with SEND. All 152 local areas in England will be inspected over a period of five years.</p><p> </p><p>We have included autism indicators on diagnosis and post-diagnostic outcomes in the Mental Health Services Dataset, with data collected from 1 April 2018. This will bring more transparency to the process, provide more accurate data on performance nationally and help drive up performance.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/04/2018 12:51:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

873595

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Autism: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average autism diagnosis waiting time for children under the age of 18 has been for each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	134709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>This information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2018, data on waiting times from referral for suspected autism to a first appointment and subsequent diagnosis will be collected within the Mental Health Services Data Set. The intention is to publish a first formal report on this data during 2019.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 134710 134711 134712 question first answered 16/04/2018 10:30:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

873596

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Autism: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the longest autism diagnosis waiting time for children under the age of 18 has been for each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	134710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>This information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2018, data on waiting times from referral for suspected autism to a first appointment and subsequent diagnosis will be collected within the Mental Health Services Data Set. The intention is to publish a first formal report on this data during 2019.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 134709 134711 134712 question first answered 16/04/2018 10:30:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

800925

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Autism: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued on the sharing of information between medical and educational professionals following a diagnosis of autism for a young person.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	117484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>Under the Children and Families Act 2014, clinical commissioning groups, National Health Service trusts, NHS foundation trusts and local education providers must co-operate with the local authority in supporting children with a special educational need, such as autism. This includes the sharing of relevant information. The statutory guidance Special educational needs and disability code of practice:0 to 25 years issued jointly by the Department of Health and the Department for Education, provides advice on how the partners can work together and share information in their statutory roles. The two departments have also issued a guide to the Code specifically for clinical commissioning groups, health professionals and local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/12/2017 14:49:08 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

791007

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Autism: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve NHS timescales for diagnosing children with autism.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	113651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>Diagnosing autism in children can involve a range of observations over time and a number of different professionals. The time taken to formulate a diagnosis will not be the same in all cases.</p><p> </p><p>There are concerns in some local areas that the length of time some children have had to wait for an assessment for autism to begin is longer than the three months recommended by the National Institute for Care and Health Excellence (NICE) guidelines from a referral to a first appointment. Whilst local clinical commissioning groups have been working to bring down the waits in line with the NICE guidelines, to date there has been no national collection of waiting times data.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking steps to rectify this and NHS Digital have confirmed they will be collecting and recording waiting times from referral for suspected autism to a first appointment within the Mental Health Services Data Set from April 2018. This will mean that each area can be held to account in real time and action can be taken to support them when waiting times are increasing.</p><p> </p><p>An indicative timeline for the development of care pathways was set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. The precise timetable for the establishment of a care pathway for autism will be confirmed by NHS England in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/11/2017 17:33:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

691836

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Autism: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department provides for servicemen and women's children who have an autism diagnosis.
tabling member constituency	Charnwood
tabling member printed	Edward Argar
uin	64426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>Within the UK, responsibility for Service children with an autism diagnosis rests with the statutory authorities. Where appropriate, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Directorate for Children and Young People provides additional support. This includes detailed information, advice and support to Service parents through the MOD's Children's Education Advisory Service; and the MOD's Education Support Fund has provided additional resources in situations where a Service child with an autism diagnosis might otherwise suffer disadvantage through Service mobility or parental deployment. For those eligible for the MOD's Continuity of Education Allowance, an addition to that allowance is available to those with an autism diagnosis.</p><p>For Service families based overseas the MOD acts in lieu of a local authority to provide support. Service families are not assigned to an overseas location without an assessment of whether any significant health, welfare or education needs (including autism) can be properly supported. MOD schools overseas have access to trained individuals (including educational psychologists) and training resources to allow schools to support children with autism; and to provide training to parents where practicable. Additional support is also provided for children returning to the United Kingdom, to assure a smooth transition back to local authority responsibility.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 27/02/2017 16:30:46 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar

678015

registered interest
date	24/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Autism: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what non-educational support the Government provides to children with autism.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	61505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and local authorities have a responsibility to commission services that best meet the needs of their populations including those of the children and young people for whom they are responsible.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups commission health services which may be needed specifically by children with autism, such as paediatrics, therapies (such as speech and language therapy) and mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities commission social care, and may offer short breaks needed by children with autism or their families.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 01/02/2017 10:46:57 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon