Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to COVID-19 Response: Living with COVID-19, published on 21 February 2022, what steps his Department are taking to help ensure that NHS England's Targeted Lung Health Check programme is able to return to and exceed its pre-pandemic levels of performance.

All Targeted Lung Health Check (TLHC) sites were operational by September 2020 and are issuing in excess of 30,000 invitations each month, compared to 1,555 each month prior to the pandemic. In 2022/23, the number of operational THLCs sites will increase from 23 to 43, funded by up to £70 million from the NHS Cancer Programme. The UK National Screening Committee is currently considering whether TLHCs should be recommended as a national screening programme.