Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when Health Education England will publish its report on the future shape and skills mix of the cancer workforce.

Broad analysis of the cancer workforce will be published shortly in Health Education England's annual Workforce Plan for England, and in a series of detailed professional group reports, which outline the full range of workforce issues facing the health and care system. The Workforce Plan for England 2017/18 describes the scale and nature of these challenges, but also contains proposals for the active management of these workforce issues across the system at local and national level. The Workforce Plan will be supplemented by a range of other documents which will be published over a range of timescales, one of which is the Cancer Workforce Plan, which Health Education England have committed to publish in summer 2017.