Question follow-through · 78647
Learning Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that families of adults with learning disabilities are given a greater role in decisions on their (a) care and (b) support.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that families of adults with learning disabilities are given a greater role in decisions on their (a) care and (b) support.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2025
Answer published
Under the Government’s 10-Year Health Plan, carers will be actively involved in the care planning of those they care for, mirroring the practices of family group conferencing.Additionally, we are increasing the information captured about unpaid carers thr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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