Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) NHS oncologists who are (i) employed and (ii) unemployed and (b) vacancies for that role in (A) Shropshire and (B) England as of 17 July 2023.

There are 17 full-time equivalent doctors working in the oncology specialisms at hospital trusts and core organisations in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board as of March 2023, which is the latest available data.

Information on unemployed oncologists and vacancies is not held centrally by the Department.