Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the mental health of people who have diabetes.

We are committed to improving access to mental health services to all sections of the population in England, including those with diabetes.

On 21 March 2018 NHS England and NHS Improvement along with the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health published 'The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Pathway for People with Long Term Health Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms'. This provides advice to clinical commissioning groups on how to ensure that Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services provide people with such conditions with the same access to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-recommended psychological therapies as other people.