Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 28 August (HL2592), what specific national body will be responsible for formulating and issuing evidence-based national recommendations to reduce avoidable mortality for people with a learning disability, following the conclusion of the national LeDeR annual report.

Integrated care boards (ICBs) have a statutory duty to reduce health inequalities within their local area. LeDeR is a service improvement tool for ICBs to identify opportunities to reduce health inequalities for people with a learning disability, and ICBs are responsible for identifying learning from reviews and implementing local actions to improve services. The ICB board is responsible for ensuring that the ICB is meeting its statutory duties, overseen by NHS England which has powers of intervention is the ICB is failing or at risk of failing to meet its statutory duties. NHS England, working with my Department, will continue to consider national-level actions to reduce health inequalities, including avoidable mortality for people with a learning disability.