Question follow-through · 103109

Community Care: Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to deliver the outstanding recommendations from Sir Stephen Bubb's report for the Public Accounts Select Committee, entitled Care services for people with lea

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 5 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 12 Jan 2026
Answer: 12 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

5 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to deliver the outstanding recommendations from Sir Stephen Bubb's report for the Public Accounts Select Committee, entitled Care services for people with lea
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jan 2026
Answer published
Care services for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour was published for the Public Accounts Select Committee in 2015, under a previous administration. The Government is committed to reducing the number of people with a learning dis...

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