Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to implement a national strategy for ocular health.

There are no plans to develop a national strategy for eye health. Given the size of England, and the diversity of the health needs of different communities, we believe commissioning needs to be owned and managed locally. However, the Department supports Vision UK, an umbrella organisation for the eye health and sight loss sector, which aims to improve eye health and end sight loss, improve support across eye health and social care services and improve awareness of sight loss.