Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if officials in his Department will hold discussions with their counterparts in the Scottish Government on the Scottish roll-out of c-peptide testing for type one diabetics.

We have no current plans to do so. At present the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) clinical guideline on the diagnosis and management of type 1 diabetes does not recommend routinely measuring C‑peptide or diabetes‑specific autoantibody titres to confirm type 1 diabetes in adults. NICE is currently updating recommendations on C-peptide testing and recommendations will be published in March 2022.