Prime Minister Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Prime Minister

Sarah Bool Excerpts
Wednesday 2nd July 2025

(2 days, 23 hours ago)

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The following extract is from Prime Minister’s questions on 11 June 2025.
Sarah Bool Portrait Sarah Bool
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It is National Diabetes Week, and as someone living with type 1, as we both are, Mr Speaker, I am more than aware of the serious complications of diabetic ketoacidosis—DKA—which can prove fatal if not caught early enough. A quarter of children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when in DKA, and that could be avoided with early diagnosis. Will the Prime Minister commit to rolling out a national universal screening programme, as seen in Italy, for type 1?

Keir Starmer Portrait The Prime Minister
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I thank the hon. Member for championing this really important issue. My late mother had diabetes, so I know at first hand just what a struggle it can be and how important this is. Type 1 diabetes is not preventable, as she knows, but the sooner we can reach people, the sooner we can care for them. We have a screening programme in the UK available to families across the country, and over 20,000 children have already taken part. It is really important that we continue to deliver that, but I thank her for continuing to champion this and to raise her voice on this very important issue.

[Official Report, 11 June 2025; Vol. 768, c. 974.]

Written correction submitted by the Prime Minister, the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer):