Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by the Royal College of Radiologists entitled Improving Paediatric Interventional Radiology services in the UK, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report's findings on (a) the number of consultant paediatric interventional radiology posts in the UK and (b) the proportion of those that are outside London.

The Department will be discussing the geographic spread of posts with NHS England.

I have agreed to meet the Royal College of Radiologists so this matter will also be discussed in a meeting with them.