Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of research published in the British Medical Journal on 7 December 2022 which shows that the UK had the fastest increase in the age standardised incidence rate for early onset type 2 diabetes between 1990 and 2019; and whether he is taking steps to help reverse that trend.

The Department with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), invests in high-quality research on diabetes. NIHR is investing £2 million in an evaluation of scalable behavioural weight management programmes for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes.