Question follow-through · 74371
Health Services: Autism and Learning Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on the implementation of the Oliver McGowan mandatory training on learning disability and autism across the NHS and social care workforce.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on the implementation of the Oliver McGowan mandatory training on learning disability and autism across the NHS and social care workforce.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2025
Answer published
On 19 June 2025, the Department laid a Code of Practice in Parliament which sets out how providers can meet the statutory requirement for learning disability and autism training.Over three million people have completed the e-learning package, the first pa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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