Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-43242

Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: 21 January 2026
Current status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 29 January 2026

Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05166 by Kevin Stewart on 24 January 2022, whether it will provide an update on the number of people with learning difficulties and autism who have died in inpatient units in Scotland since 2015.

Answer

Following the parliamentary question asked on 24 January 2022, Public Health Scotland (PHS) published a statistical report in May 2022 on inpatient deaths for patients with learning disabilities and autism at the request of the Scottish Government. The full report can be found on the PHS website:

https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/psychiatric-care-inpatient-deaths-for-patients-with-learning-disabilities-and-autism.

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