Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Part One of the National Disability Strategy published 28 July 2021, whether his Department established a new disability data working group in 2021 for the purposes of looking at health and social care datasets and address priority areas where there are gaps in the data as planned; and if he will publish details of the membership of that working group.

We are in the process of establishing the Disability Data Working Group and will publish details of the membership once agreed. We expect the first meeting of the group to take place in February 2022.