Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 67790

Diabetes: Screening

Tabled: 14 July 2025
Answered: 18 July 2025
Named Day

Question

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of a universal, paediatric Type 1 Diabetes screening programme.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
In the United Kingdom, national screening programmes are introduced based on the recommendations of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), an independent scientific advisory committee which advises ministers and the National Health Service in all f...

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