To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the average ratio of children to paediatric diabetes specialist nurses in (a) Leeds and (b) England. (220708)

The information is not collected centrally. It is for local national health service organisations to deploy specialist nurses according to their local needs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many primary care trusts in Leeds have carried out a local needs assessment on the development of services for children and young people with diabetes; and if he will make a statement. (220783)

This information is not collected centrally. Responsibility for developing services for children and young people with diabetes rests with the national health service, and it is for primary care trusts to commission services that meet the needs of their local population.

In April 2007, the Department of Health published ‘Making Every Young Person with Diabetes Matter’, the report of the Children and Young People with Diabetes working group, which looked at ways to improve diabetes services for children and young people. This report includes guidance to commissioners on the planning, design and provision of diabetes services for children and young people. A copy of this document has already been placed in the Library.

The Diabetes Commissioning Toolkit, published in November 2006, describes the importance of carrying out a health needs assessment for local diabetes populations.