Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of the third type of diabetes.

There is currently no consensus amongst clinicians to whether there is enough evidence to formally support a title of type 3 diabetes. It is however recognised that diabetes is one of the risk factors for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. Work is ongoing to look at ways of preventing dementia, including known risk factors.