Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, how much and what proportion of the additional funding for training NHS staff will be directed towards the cancer workforce.

Following the outcome of the Spending Review 2021, plans for individual budgets for 2022/23 to 2024/25, including funding for training the cancer workforce, will be subject to a detailed financial planning exercise and finalised in due course.