Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who have died from covid-19 had a learning difficulty; and what estimate he has made of the infection rate for people with a learning difficulty.

Information on COVID-19 deaths of people with a learning disability notified to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review programme is available on the NHS England website at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/covid-19-deaths-of-patients-with-a-learning-disability-notified-to-leder/

We do not have an estimate of the infection rate for people with a learning disability.