| Heading: |
Diabetes: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1790563 |
| UIN: |
42728 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4603 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Preet Kaur Gill
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| Asking Member handle: |
PreetKGillMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@PreetKGillMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of screening relatives of people with type 1 diabetes. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-07 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
The Early Surveillance for Autoimmune diabetes (ELSA) study is researching a screening programme for children, aged three to 13 years old, to detect for type 1 diabetes with a simple finger stick blood test. This looks for four antibodies, protein markers... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |