Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to protect people with learning disabilities from covid-19.

We have extended the Infection Control Fund until March 2021 with an extra £546 million; provided free personal protective equipment for adult social care providers until March 2021; extended testing to all care homes and domiciliary care staff; added people with Down’s syndrome to the shielded patient list; and launched of regular retesting for high risk supported living settings.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advise that clinically extremely vulnerable individuals including adults with Down's syndrome are in priority group four and people with a severe and profound learning disability are in group six for the COVID-19.