Gluten-free Foods

(asked on 1st September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of the Welsh Gluten Free Subsidy Card Scheme; and whether it plans to introduce the same system in England to help people with coeliac disease meet the additional cost of medically necessary gluten free food.


Answered by
James Frith Portrait
James Frith
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 7th September 2026

I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided to the Hon Member for Rushcliffe on 3 July 2026 in response to Question 13254.

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