Health Secretary Wes Streeting is launching an independent review into the rising demand for mental health, ADHD and autism services.

The review will look at rates of diagnosis and the support offered to people, with Mr Streeting saying the issue needed to be looked at through a “strictly clinical lens”.

In March, the Health Secretary was asked about the welfare system and said there had been an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions with “too many people being written off”.

Figures analysed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) show mental health conditions are being more commonly reported among the working-age population.

More than half of the rise in 16 to 64-year-olds claiming disability benefits since the pandemic is down to more claims relating to mental health or behavi

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