Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will establish a national register of people with coeliac disease in England.

Annual incidence data concerning the number of peoplediagnosed with coeliac disease in England is not collected and there are no plans to establish a national register for people in England with this condition. However, the clinical guideline Coeliac disease: Recognition and assessment of coeliac disease, published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellencein 2009,estimates that coeliac disease may be present in up to 1 in 100 of the population.

No estimate has been made of the potential long-term costs to the National Health Service in England of un-managed coeliac disease and other nutritional disorders.