Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will take steps to improve the uptake of sight tests by children with disabilities.

Children aged under 16 and between 16-18 in full-time education are eligible for free National Health Service funded sight tests.

In 2013/14, 3.1 million NHS sight tests were provided to children aged up to 18 years, an increase of 6.2% on the previous year. We do not have figures for how many of these children had a disability in general, or a learning disability in particular.

The Department works with NHS Choices to raise the profile of visual health and promote the importance of regular sight tests.