Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether Integrated Care Boards will be required to include an executive director with specific, named responsibility for learning disabilities within the new NHS structure.

We are committed to improving outcomes for people with a learning disability and have set clear expectations of local systems to drive this forward. NHS England has published statutory guidance which makes clear that each integrated care board (ICB) is expected to have an executive lead for learning disability and autism who will support the board in meeting their duties in relation to people with a learning disability and autistic people. The guidance on executive lead roles within ICBs remains in place and there are no plans to change this.