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Coeliac Disease: Gluten-free Foods

Commons · Question 71392 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 8 Sep 2025

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Asked by Matt Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to share best practice between (a) Integrated Care Boards that continue to provide gluten-free staple foods on prescription and (b) those that do not.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 8 Sep 2025

Decisions about the commissioning and funding of local health services are the responsibility of local integrated care boards (ICBs). It is the responsibility of ICBs, working with clinicians, service users, and patient groups, to develop local services a...