Learning Disability APPG

First Registered: 29/09/2015 • Last updated on: 06/10/2021

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To look at the issues facing people with a learning disability and their families. The group looks at the key issues of the day, across areas including health, social care, education, employment and benefits.

Note: All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal, cross-party groups formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a particular policy area, region or country. APPGs have no official status within Parliament.

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Recent Documents related to Learning Disability

1. Closed consultation: Learning disability and autism training for health and care staff
12/04/2019 - Department of Health and Social Care
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Found: Learning disability and autism training for health and care staff Please tell us what you

2. Closed consultation: Learning disability and autism training for health and care staff
12/04/2019 - Department of Health and Social Care
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Found: Learning disability and autism training for health and care staff A consultation Contents

3. HL Bill 35 (as introduced)
16/01/2020 - Bill Documents

Found: Training on Learning Disabilities and Autism Bill [HL] 1ABILLTOMandate training on learning disability and

4. Mental health and learning disability statistics in Northern Ireland: financial year ending March 2020
23/09/2020 - Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
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Found: National Statistics Mental health and learning disability statistics in Northern Ireland: financial

5. Shortage of learning disability nurses
23/09/2020 - Early Day Motions

Found: 134 per cent increase in deaths of people with learning disabilities that happened between 10 April and

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21 Current APPG Officers

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Mark Harper

Chair & Registered Contact

Conservative - Forest of Dean

Joined: 24th November 2016

1 APPG Membership
Western Gateway

Baroness Hollins

Vice Chair

Crossbench - Life peer

Joined: 29th September 2015

10 APPG Memberships
Adult Social Care , Autism , Conception to Age Two - First 1001 Days , Dying Well , Global Health , Holy See , Mental Health , Prescribed Drug Dependence , Psychology , Safeguarding in Faith Communities

Lisa Cameron

Vice Chair

Scottish National Party - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow

Joined: 29th September 2015

79 APPG Memberships
22q11 Syndrome , American Football , Antisemitism , Arctic and Nordic Councils , Armed Forces , Armed Forces Covenant , Assistive Technology , Australia and New Zealand , Autism , Bahrain , Banning Trophy Hunting , Belgium , Bermuda , Boys' Brigade , Breast Cancer , British Jews , British Overseas Territories , Canada , Cats , Cerebral Palsy , Channel 4 , Channel Islands , Childhood Trauma , Chile , China , Commonwealth , Cyprus , Darts , Dementia , Diabetes , Disability , Dog Advisory Welfare , Down Syndrome , Dying Well , Eating Disorders , Entrepreneurship , Estonia , Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion , Fair Business Banking , Financial Education for Young People , Foreign Affairs , Future of Retail , Global Health , Health , Holocaust Memorial , Hydrogen , Inclusive Entrepreneurship , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Japan , Liechtenstein , Limits to Growth , Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness , Luxembourg , Media , Mentoring , Montserrat , Olympic and Paralympic Games , Pacific Islands , Pro-Life , Psychology , Pubs , Qatar , Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022 , Reserves and Cadets , Russia , San Marino , Serbia , Small Island Developing States , Social Media , Switzerland , Textiles and Fashion , Thalidomide , Twelve Steps Recovery Programme from Addiction , United Nations , United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development , United Nations Women , Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics , Whistleblowing , Woods and Trees

Barbara Keeley

Vice Chair

Labour - Worsley and Eccles South

Joined: 24th February 2020

9 APPG Memberships
Ageing and Older People , Classical Music , Coronavirus , Film and Broader Screen , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Motor Neurone Disease , Social Work , Special Educational Needs and Disabilities , Tennis