Question follow-through · 110671
Diabetes: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to improve diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes in children.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 16 Mar 2026 · 41 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to improve diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes in children.
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Early Surveillance for Autoimmune diabetes (ELSA) study is currently screening children across the United Kingdom to identify those at risk of developing type 1 diabetes. More information is available at the following link: https://www.elsadiabetes.nh...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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