Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 5 of the Report of the Independent Cancer Taskforce, Achieving world-class cancer outcomes: a strategy for England 2015-20, published in July 2015, when his Department plans to publish its strategic review of the cancer workforce.

Health Education England (HEE) is continuing to develop its workforce plan to be published for consultation from March 2017. HEE produced an initial workforce baseline review in 2016 and shared it with partners, the National Cancer Advisory Group, and Cancer Research UK and Macmillan, amongst others, as a starting point for conversations around workforce. This review, and an initial skills mix review, will be wrapped up in the cancer workforce strategy.