To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of research published in the British Medical Journal on 7 December 2022 which shows that the UK had the fastest increase in the age standardised incidence rate for early onset type 2 diabetes between 1990 and 2019; and whether he is taking steps to help reverse that trend.
Answered on
10 January 2023
The Department with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), invests in high-quality research on diabetes. NIHR is investing £2 million in an evaluation of scalable behavioural weight management programmes for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes.
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Department of Health and Social Care
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