Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of The Royal College of Radiologists’ findings that there are (a) 12 consultant paediatric interventional radiology posts in the UK and (b) five paediatric interventional radiology posts based outside London; and if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the number of those posts.

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.