Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral evidence given by Dame Cally Palmer to the Health and Social Care Committee on 7 March 2023, Question 86, whether he plans to publish the acceleration plan on diagnostic capacity for cancer.

The Department has no plans to publish an acceleration plan on diagnostic capacity for cancer. We are working together with NHS England to increase diagnostic capacity as quickly as possible to ensure we meet our ambitious elective recovery targets. This includes work underway to rollout an increased number of Community Diagnostic Centres and other diagnostic interventions at pace.