Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of children diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in each of the last five years.

This specific information is not collected centrally.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines `Diabetes in children and young people: diagnosis and management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children and young people’ states around 26,500 children and young people in the United Kingdom are estimated to have Type 1 diabetes needing insulin replacement therapy.

The National Paediatric Diabetes Audit collects and reports information from participating paediatric diabetes centres regarding their provision of diabetes care for the children and young people attending their services.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects information via the National Diabetes Audit and reports on the provision of core diabetes care. This does not however include a full picture of the number of children diagnosed with diabetes.