§ 76. Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of autistic children in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region who are on the waiting list for in-patient specialist training.
§ Mr. AlisonSeparate figures for Yorkshire and Humberside are not available. Twenty-one autistic children are waiting admission to hospitals in the Sheffield hospital region and five in the Leeds hospital region. Of these none and five, respectively, are awaiting admission to a special unit for autistic children or to a hospital where such children are grouped together.