Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what financial provision has been made to support training of the future cancer nurse specialist workforce.

As part of a £52 million investment in the cancer and diagnostics workforce in 2021/22, Health Education England is offering 250 training grants to enable existing and aspiring cancer nurse specialists to undertake additional training to develop specialist clinical, leadership, education and research capabilities. Spending plans for individual budgets, including for training cancer nurse specialists, for 2022/23 to 2024/25 are subject to a detailed financial planning exercise and will be finalised in due course.