Greg Mulholland – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-03-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average amount of time taken for an autism diagnosis was in (a) Leeds, (b) Yorkshire and (c) England in each of the last three years.

Alistair Burt

The information collected centrally about this is gathered as part of the Autism Self-Assessment Framework undertaken by Public Health England on behalf of the Department. This covers adults only and the first time this topic was included was 2013. In 2013 Leeds reported an average wait for referral to diagnostic services of 36 weeks. In 2014 Leeds reported that the average wait between referral and assessment in their autism diagnosis service was 14 weeks.

In view of the informal nature of the data collection and the incompleteness of responses, we do not routinely produce data aggregated to regional or England level.