Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 71392

Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

ConservativeStockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to share best practice between (a) Integrated Care Boards that continue to provide gluten-free staple foods on prescription and (b) those that do not.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Decisions about the commissioning and funding of local health services are the responsibility of local integrated care boards (ICBs). It is the responsibility of ICBs, working with clinicians, service users, and patient groups, to develop local services a...

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