Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of Radiologists report entitled Improving Paediatric Interventional Radiology services in the UK, published in April 2023, if he will make assessment of the potential implications for his Department's policies of that report's findings that (a) there are 12 paediatric interventional radiology consultant posts in the UK and (b) of those posts, five are located 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.