Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that his Department, NHS England, Public Health England, clinical commissioning groups and local authorities co-ordinate a national approach to improving the prevention, testing, diagnosis and treatment of Hepatitis C.

Public Health England is currently working with NHS England and other partners to reduce the burden of disease from hepatitis C through a suite of activities to improve awareness, prevention, testing and diagnosis, referral into care, and treatment outcomes. The Department is supportive of this work, and is helping to facilitate it.