In response to this report, the Government should set out: • The reasons why the number of autistic people detained in mental health hospitals has increased; and how it plans to reduce that number, and by when. • The steps it will take to improve access to and availability of community-based alternatives to inpatient settings, including the additional resources it plans to allocate to support this; and • Its progress on discharging people with a learning disability and autistic people inappropriately detained in mental health hospitals, broken down by Integrated Care Board. (Paragraph 51) 36 Inequalities in healthcare and employment for people with a learning disability and autistic people