Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the evidential basis was for NICE's draft clinical guidelines for the management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in adults.

The evidence considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the development of its guidance is available on the NICE website.

The evidence for NICE’s draft clinical guideline on type 1 diabetes is available at:

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-cgwaver122/documents and the evidence for NICE’s draft clinical guideline type 2 diabetes is available at:

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-cgwave0612/documents