Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people with arthritis.

The majority of services for those with arthritis are commissioned locally by integrated care boards, who are best placed to support people with arthritis. The forthcoming Major Conditions Strategy will cover musculoskeletal health, including arthritis, and combine the Department’s key commitments in mental health, cancer, dementia and health disparities into a single strategy.