Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will fund the salaries of frontline cancer charity workers who have been redeployed from cancer care to tackling covid-19.

In instances where NHS Providers have called upon non-National Health Service organisations for their staff to be deployed to an NHS service, it would be expected that the contracting body will pay back the organisation accordingly and claim that money as a reasonable additional cost in their cost collection exercise.