Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether an Equality Impact Assessment was carried out on the implementation of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s 2021 guidance on Perplexing Presentations and Fabricated or Induced Illness.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is independent of the Government, and we are not aware of any Equality Impact Assessment being carried out in relation to their guidance.