Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 10 November (HL11512), how many separate formal meetings involving a minister and either a senior manager or the clinical lead at NHS England with specific responsibility for the learning from lives and deaths (LeDeR) programme there have been with the LeDeR programme and its findings as the principal or only item on the agenda since July 2024; and on which specific dates those focused meetings took place.

As set out in the Written Answer on 10 November, there are regular conversations between the relevant minister, Department officials, and senior clinical and managerial leads at NHS England in relation to improving overall health outcomes for people with a learning disability and autistic people.

Several meetings have taken place since July 2024 and the publication of the recent annual Learning from Lives and deaths, people with a learning disability and autistic people report was discussed. The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health Innovation and Safety, who recently assumed responsibility for this, has met senior managers and discussed key findings from the report and the wider work underway to tackle health inequalities and improve access to, and the quality of, services for people with a learning disability.