Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2020 to Question 52076 on Diabetes: Medical Treatments, if he will make it his policy to ensure transparency in prescribing data in formularies in both (a) community pharmacies and (b) other settings.

The Government is committed to transparency in prescribing data and there are a variety of processes used to monitor prescribing patterns and variation in the prescribing of technologies in both prescribing in the community and hospital settings for people with diabetes.

The NHS Business Services Authority operates an Open Data Portal on their website which is available for public use to enable interested stakeholders to access prescribing data. Information is also publicly available at the following link:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/open-data-portal-odp