Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to speed up sarcoma cancer diagnoses.

The National Health Service is establishing non-specific symptom pathways to provide a new route to diagnosis for patients who cannot be referred to a single cancer pathway. This may include patients who are ultimately diagnosed with sarcoma. NHS system planning guidance for 2022/23 has asked local systems to extend coverage of non-specific symptom pathways to at least 75% of the population by March 2023. We have also invested £325 million in capital funding in NHS diagnostics in 2021/22.