Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the reference in the Diabetes Transformation Fund guidelines to variation between clinical commissioning groups refers to; and what the reasons are for such such variation.

The reference to variation is with respect to variation between outcomes for diabetes patients between clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), and between general practitioner practices within CCGs, where these cannot be explained by differences in population composition or other demographic factors.