Children: Diabetes

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:01 pm on 8 February 2006.

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Photo of Lord Harrison Lord Harrison Labour 3:01, 8 February 2006

My Lords, will my noble friend congratulate the Austrian presidency on prioritising diabetes as a matter of concern, especially type 2 diabetes? Does he recognise that there are 20,000 children with type 1 diabetes and, at the moment, only 200 a year with type 2? Children with type 1 diabetes must not be forgotten.