Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider extending NHS sight test eligibility criteria by listing learning disability as a risk factor.

Whilst adults with a learning disability do not automatically qualify for free National Health Service sight tests, they may qualify under other categories of exemption, for example being in receipt of income-related benefits or through the NHS low-income scheme.

To support children and young people with learning disabilities, free NHS sight tests are available within special educational settings across England, that choose to host a service.