PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cancer: Public Expenditure (26 November 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with Health Education England on how the extra £260 million announced in the Spending Review 2020 will support the cancer workforce.

Asked by:
Bob Blackman (Conservative)

The Spending Review 2020 provides £260 million to continue to grow the National Health Service workforce and support commitments made in the NHS Long Term Plan, including continuing to take forward the cancer workforce plan phase one.

Full details on funding allocations towards NHS workforce budgets, including Health Education England, in 2021-22 will be subject to a detailed financial planning exercise and finalised in due course.

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
9 December 2020