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 7 February 2022 to Question 119579 on Liver Diseases: Health Services, what steps he is taking to implement the findings of the Hepatobiliary Clinical Reference Group review of the stocktake of health inequalities in liver disease commissioned by NHS England in 2021.

NHS England Hepatobiliary Clinical Reference Group has formally received the stocktake of health inequalities in liver disease it commissioned in 2021. It is now working to determine an appropriate action plan to address the report’s findings. The conclusions drawn within the report will inform the update to the hepatobiliary service specification, which is currently in train.