Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to issue targeted information on the covid-19 vaccine and support to people with learning disabilities to help them access the vaccine as soon as possible.

NHS England and NHS Improvement’s learning disability and autism programme has worked collaboratively across the National Health Service, Public Health England and other partners to support the delivery of reasonable adjustments in the vaccination programme. This has included a range of training resources for vaccination teams on communicating with people with a learning disability and autistic people. This has also included training resources on making reasonable adjustments, the provision of accessible information, including an easy read vaccination invitation letter and vaccination consent form and production of a film about the COVID-19 vaccine.