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Cancer and Tomography: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January to Question 25057 on Workforce freezes, whether he plans to publish an Answer following engagement with NHS England.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
24 Feb 2025
Answer
12 Mar 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January to Question 25057 on Workforce freezes, whether he plans to publish an Answer following engagement with NHS England.

  2. 24 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    We have increased specialty training places for key roles, such as radiologists, radiographers, and other diagnostic professionals, alongside initiatives to improve retention and reduce reliance on outsourcing. These efforts are part of our continued comm...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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