Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on people with learning disabilities.

Research has also been commissioned by the Department from the University of Warwick and Manchester Metropolitan University to look at the impacts of COVID-19 and of the measures taken in response of the pandemic on the wellbeing and lives of people with learning disabilities. The results of this research will be published shortly.