HC Deb 09 May 1972 vol 836 c313W
76. Mr. Edwin Wainwright

asked 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. Alison

Separate 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.