Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 1 March 2021 to Question 141964 on Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis, if he will take steps to collect and hold centrally information on the cost to the NHS of late diagnosis of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis as a result of covid-19 related delays over the last 12 months.
There are no current plans to do so.