Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether guidance is available to NHS cancer services on providing patients with evidence-based information on nutrition, physical activity and lifestyle alongside conventional cancer treatment.

I refer the Hon Member to the Department’s strategy on Living with and Beyond Cancer in Chapter 4 of the National Cancer Plan available at the link below, which examines these and other issues in detail:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69dce11fd3e08b8871b6662c/national-cancer-plan-for-england-delivering-world-class-cancer-care.pdf