Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adverse consequences for patients of restricting the use of blue-light filtering intraocular lenses, as laid out in the NICE draft guideline Cataracts in adults: management.

The Government has made no such assessment. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has not yet issued its final clinical guideline on the management of cataracts and it would not be appropriate to pre-empt its final recommendations. NICE recently consulted on the draft clinical guideline and will take the comments it received in response to the consultation fully into account in developing its final guidance, due for publication in October 2017.