Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the initiatives announced by the Prime Minister on 3 October 2018 on early detection rates for cancer include blood cancer; and if he will make a statement.

NHS England is completely clear that the new 75% early diagnosis ambition announced by the Prime Minister covers all cancers, and not just the 10 currently included in the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) early diagnosis metric. NHS England is keen to work with the voluntary sector organisations and charities representing some of the other cancers not currently included in the PHOF metric on how we best measure progress towards the ambition moving forwards.