Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure NHS trusts meet the 93 percent target for two-week referrals for breast cancer.

The Department has provided £2.3 billion for diagnostic services, including the launch of up to 160 community diagnostic centres to deliver additional diagnostic capacity in England, including for breast cancer. NHS England is also developing a best practice timed pathway for breast cancer, which states the sequence of events and maximum timeframes in which triage, diagnostic tests and assessments should be delivered, to support delivery of the two week wait and Faster Diagnosis Standards.