Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 May 2020 to Question 37551 on Coronavirus: Learning Disability, for what reason his Department does not collect data on the number of disabled people that have died from covid-19.

Information on COVID-19 deaths of people with a learning disability notified to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review programme is available on the NHS England website at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/covid-19-deaths-of-patients-with-a-learning-disability-notified-to-leder/