Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to publish a national diabetes strategy; and if he will make a statement.
Preventing diabetes and promoting the best possible care for people with diabetes is a key priority for this Government. The NHS Five Year Forward View set out a commitment to implement a National Diabetes Prevention Programme to provide lifestyle programmes to pre diabetic patients to reduce the risk of them developing diabetes.
We are also building on the Diabetes Prevention Programme to improve the outcomes of people with and at risk of diabetes and will put forward our plans in due course.