Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive on a regional strategy for Parkinson's disease.

Health is a devolved matter and the Department collects no information about how many people in Northern Ireland have Parkinson’s disease. However, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence reports that the condition affects between 100-180 people per 100,000 of the United Kingdom population and has an annual incidence of 4-20 per 100,000.

Although health is a devolved matter, research and evidence of best practice is made widely available throughout the United Kingdom.