Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of NHS staff (a) deliver services for cancer patients and (b) will be covered by the new cancer workforce strategy.

We do not collect centrally information on the proportion of staff delivering services for cancer patients.

Health Education England (HEE) and NHS England are working with Cancer Alliances, charities and professional bodies to lead the development of a cancer workforce plan which will support delivery of the outcomes of the national cancer strategy and Five Year Forward View. In December 2017 HEE will publish the cancer workforce plan to 2021, setting out a series of actions to be taken as a system to ensure we have the workforce needed to deliver the Five Year Forward View commitments.