Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the forecast level of expenditure on the Cancer Drugs Fund will be in the 2014-15 financial year.
NHS England has oversight of the Cancer Drugs Fund.
We are advised that NHS England has not published a forecast for expenditure through the Cancer Drugs Fund in 2014-15.
On 28 August, we announced that the size of the Fund would be increased to £280 million in both 2014-15 and 2015-16.