Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure patients with allergies receive a referral to specialist care for the best possible evidence based treatment as recommended in the Allergy UK Patient charter for people who live with allergic disease; and if she will make a statement.

The majority of allergy services are commissioned locally by integrated care systems, with specialist allergy services for patients with complex and severe allergies commissioned nationally by NHS England. There are resources available to support health care professionals in making referrals to specialist services, including guidance from the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.