Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) address the risk of and (b) treat diabetes in people from a Pakistani background living in the UK.

NHS England, Public Health England, and Diabetes UK are working together on Healthier You: the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NDPP), the first diabetes prevention programme of its kind to be delivered at scale, nationwide. The NDPP aims to address all the population of England at risk of type 2 diabetes, including those of a Pakistani background.

As part of the National Diabetes Treatment and Care Programme, NHS England has invested £42 million in 2017/18 in four key evidence-based interventions. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and providers within localities were invited to bid for access to this funding through submission of plans to show how use of the funding would lead to improved outcomes for their local populations. As part of this, they were asked to consider the specific groups within their populations who may have poorer diabetes outcomes and take these into account in their proposals. Therefore, where these included people from a Pakistani or other Asian background, localities were able to reflect this in their plans.