Learning Disabilities: Health and Care Services

Baroness Barker Excerpts

Wednesday 3rd December 2014 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

I can give the noble Baroness that assurance.

[Baroness Barker (LD)]

My Lords, the report recommends that the Government should respond to the Bradley report five years on, which deals with how the criminal justice system treats people with learning disabilities and autism. Could the Minister say whether the Government will respond to that report—and, if so, when?

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, the Bradley report, which was a seminal report, was subject to a five-year review earlier this year. We will consider reports of progress and further recommendations in that report in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office and NHS England with regard to future policy development.