Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage patients with a learning disability to apply to be on their GP's learning disability register.

Being on a general practice’s (GP) learning disability register is crucial to ensuring that people receive the right support at the right time, including access to annual health checks. Our approach focuses both on encouraging eligible patients to join the register and on supporting GPs to identify and register people with a learning disability.

Work is currently underway to increase uptake, including encouraging children and young people to join the learning disability register at 14 years old, and to support people who do not have a confirmed learning disability diagnosis to access the register and appropriate services.

NHS England monitors uptake of the learning disability register and publishes data routinely. Information on the number of people on GP learning disability registers is in the table attached.

NHS England is also working with people with lived experience, clinical professionals, and commissioners to produce guidance on improving identification of learning disability and developing a quality framework setting expectations for annual health checks and health action plans. My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, wrote to all GPs in October 2025, emphasising the importance of the learning disability register and the need to deliver high-quality annual health checks.