One of my roles in Parliament is acting as the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Learning Disability - a role to which I was recently re-elected.

One of my roles in Parliament is acting as the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Learning Disability. In this role, I work closely with Mencap, the leading voice on learning disability, to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers.

Earlier this week, I asked the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, a question on the support provided to small businesses to help get people with mental health problems into or back into work.

This week, I asked the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, to put on record the findings of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) report into how NHS hospitals investigate the deaths of people in their care, with specific attention to the very poor record of investigating the deaths of tho

Earlier this week, I hosted my first meeting as Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Learning Disability, which I was elected to in November.

Saturday 3rd December was the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), a United Nations project celebrated annually.

This afternoon, I was elected chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on learning disability.

This is the transcript of an article I wrote for The Times, on 11th October 2016, which you can see here.