Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the level of (a) access to and (b) uptake of diabetes prevention (i) methods and (ii) programmes in each clinical commissioning group area; and if he will make a statement.

The information requested is not centrally held.

The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP) commenced roll out in June 2016 and to the end of March 2018, 182,846 have been referred to the NHS DPP and 78,326 have commenced programmes, ahead of profile.

NHS Digital would be able to provide a partial response to the information requested pending receipt of the end of year extract for primary care National Diabetes Audit data, which will include NHS DPP audit data. Final report publication will be scheduled for early 2019 dependent on the quality of data received.