Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Rapid Diagnostic and Assessment Centres are available to NHS patients in England; and how many have (a) opened and (b) are planned to open, since the publication of NHS England's Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View in March 2017.

Nine rapid assessment and diagnostic centres have been established through the “Accelerate, Co-ordinate, Evaluate Wave 2” partnership between NHS England, Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Cancer Support. A further three centres have been trialled in London over this year as part of work initiated through the National Diagnostics Capacity Fund. NHS England is also funding rapid diagnostic centres and models in Cancer Alliances through its transformation funding over this and the next financial year.