Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his future policy towards the National Cancer Peer Review programme is.

NHS England is currently reviewing the National Cancer Peer Review programme with a view to considering how its success might be extended into other new areas of specialised commissioning. Regardless of the outcome of this review, cancer peer review will continue to play a critical part of any broader peer review programme that the NHS may look to introduce.