Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve diabetes education for (a) students and (b) young people.
The social marketing programme Change4Life aims to help everyone in England to eat well, move more and live longer and in doing so contributes to tackling excess weight. Type 2 diabetes is used as an example of the potential consequences of inactivity/unhealthy diets in the Change4Life and Start4life campaigns. There is a considerable amount of information on diabetes available on NHS Choices.