Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on implementing the National Cancer Strategy.
NHS England is committed to delivering the recommendations set out in the National Cancer Strategy and transform cancer services across the country by 2020/21. The National Cancer Programme published a progress report on the implementation of the Independent Cancer Taskforce Report on 18 October. The report provides a detailed update against our strategic priorities to transform cancer services across the country by 2021.