Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to provide all children who have type one diabetes with (a) insulin pumps and (b) continuous glucose monitoring through the NHS in (i) Twickenham constituency and (ii) England.

Diabetes care is commissioned by local Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), which are responsible for developing commissioning policies. ICBs must have due regard to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) guidance. However, local decision making applies on the implementation of this guidance.

NHS England supports and encourages local National Health Service partners to adopt NICE’s guidelines for the diagnosis and management of type 1 diabetes in children and young adults and the use of intermittently scanned glucose monitoring devices, real-time continuous glucose monitors.