Question follow-through · 107115
Eyesight: Testing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider extending NHS sight test eligibility criteria by listing learning disability as a risk factor.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 2 Feb 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- NHS England: Redundancy Pay · 27 Jan 2026
- Learning Disability: Low Incomes · 11 Feb 2026
- Palliative Care · 26 Feb 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider extending NHS sight test eligibility criteria by listing learning disability as a risk factor.
22 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Feb 2026
Answer published
Whilst adults with a learning disability do not automatically qualify for free National Health Service sight tests, they may qualify under other categories of exemption, for example being in receipt of income-related benefits or through the NHS low-income...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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NHS England: Redundancy Pay
27 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that NHS England staff who have taken partial retirement receive fair redundancy payments..
Learning Disability: Low Incomes
11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Written Parliamentary Question 107115, how many people with a learning disability are recorded as beneficiaries of the NHS Low Income Scheme.
Palliative Care
26 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to publish a national strategy for palliative and end of life care.