Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a separate strategy for rare and less survivable cancers.

The Major Conditions Strategy will set out our approach to tackling the different causes of mortality and ill health. It will include six conditions, one of which is cancer.

This Strategy will draw on previous work on cancer, including over 5,000 submissions provided to the Department as part of our Call for Evidence last year.