Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will fund approved diagnostics for diabetes.

As part of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, NHS England has provided implementation funding to local health economies (sustainability and transformation partnerships and their partner clinical commissioning groups, and local authorities) to support the identification, coding, and onward referral of those individuals at high risk of type 2 diabetes. Eligibility is defined by a blood glucose reading (HbA1C or FPG) within the last 12 months in the at risk category.