Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the programme of work for liver disease being developed by Public Health England will include a hepatitis C improvement framework.

NHS England and Public Health England continue to work on a framework for hepatitis C improvement. This hepatitis C improvement framework will set high level aims for the public health system towards elimination of hepatitis C related liver disease as a significant public health concern, with specific, measurable, time bound objectives that feed into this overarching ambition.

The hepatitis C improvement framework will be referred to in the Public Health England liver disease framework. The latter framework will be published in autumn 2015.