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Learning Disabilities: Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people with learning disabilities do not remain in hospital beds when there is no medical need for them to do so.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
21 Jan 2026
Answer
27 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people with learning disabilities do not remain in hospital beds when there is no medical need for them to do so.

  2. 21 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Our 10-Year Health Plan sets out to tackle health inequalities and offer people more holistic, on-going support in the community. It is important that people are discharged promptly from hospital with the right support, both for their outcomes, and to fre...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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