Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans the Government has to extend the NHS Cancer Dashboard to include ovarian and other less common cancers.

The Cancer Dashboard was published in May 2016 as a tool to help Cancer Alliances, commissioners and providers to quickly and easily identify priority areas for improvement, and enable easy tracking of progress towards national ambitions for cancer.

Initially the Dashboard focusses on tumour types with the highest incidence rates. However, NHS England will explore the inclusion of other tumour types over time. It is important to note that it will not be possible to include detailed data on all cancer types at clinical commissioning group level due to low numbers of cases.