Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 12 November to Questions 188813 and 188814 on Cancer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of implementing the national data guardian opt-out on the quality of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey data.

We are giving full consideration to the potential advantages and disadvantages of the application of the national data opt-out to the national cancer patient experience survey beyond 2018/19, including the quality and completeness of data, and a decision on this will be communicated in due course.