Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to allocation additional funding to the Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme to ensure the completion of the outstanding reviews into avoidable deaths of people with learning disabilities.

NHS England has allocated an additional £1.4 million for clinical commissioning group/sustainability and transformation partnership areas to support the delivery of the Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme in 2018/19 in its agreed fourth year of operation. This will facilitate the better establishment and running of the local mortality review programmes and reduce the backlog of mortality reviews. The learning from the reviews is being used to inform work on programmes such as increasing general practitioner annual health checks, care pathways for key mortality issues such as sepsis, epilepsy and constipation, for example, alongside other learning disability health practice improvement work.