Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a statement on the timetable for roll-out of the cancer services recovery plan.

The findings of ‘NHS Cancer Programme: Cancer services recovery plan’ contributed to NHS England and NHS Improvement’s 2021/22 Priorities and Operational Planning Guidance, which was published in March 2021. This guidance sets out the recovery aims for cancer - to find, diagnose and treat those who have not started treatment during the pandemic and to return the number of people waiting for longer than 62 days to February 2020 levels by the end of March 2022.