Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include (a) what measurable steps his Department will take and (b) what funding will be needed to maintain the breast oncology workforce in the NHS workforce plan.

To support the workforce as a whole we have commissioned NHS England to develop a Long Term Workforce Plan, including independently verified forecasts for the number of healthcare professionals required in future years. The Plan is for the whole of the National Health Service workforce, including cancer services, though it will not provide detailed workforce assessments for individual services.