Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to make blood tests for the diagnoses of Parkinson's disease available on the NHS.

The Department is aware of recent research into a blood test to diagnose Parkinson’s disease. The test is used to look for a protein in blood which could be a marker for the condition. Trials to date have been relatively small, and whilst early results have been promising, larger scale trials would be needed to demonstrate the efficacy of this approach before the test could be considered for routine use.