Learning Disabilities: Premature Deaths

Lord Wigley Excerpts

Wednesday 30th July 2014 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, many of the issues that apply to those with learning disabilities also apply to others with different disabilities, and the work currently going on in the context of the noble Baroness’s Question will, I think, have a beneficial impact across the piece.

[Lord Wigley (PC)]

Does the Minister accept that a number of the points arising out of the confidential inquiry were touched upon by the earlier DRC report published more than six years ago, Equal Treatment: Closing the Gap, and that progress since then has been patchy? In the light of that, will he give a commitment that there will be an annual review of progress made on the confidential inquiry recommendations and a report to Parliament?