Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure the continuation of the National Cancer Peer Review programme.

The National Cancer Peer Review (NCPR) programme is currently under review by NHS England and a number of options are being considered. The provision of site specific networks, such as those for breast cancer, is written into the national cancer peer review requirements, therefore the future of local breast network groups will be decided as part of the review of the NCPR programme. As yet however, no decision has been made.