Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children with a learning disability took a sight test in 2013-14.

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.