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Cancer: Doctors

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2025 to Question 61726, if he will publish: (a) the data source for the reported 8.9% increase in doctors working in clinical oncology between 2021 and 2023, (b) t

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
5 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2025 to Question 61726, if he will publish: (a) the data source for the reported 8.9% increase in doctors working in clinical oncology between 2021 and 2023, (b) t

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    NHS England publishes monthly data on the number of staff employed by National Health Service trusts and integrated care boards (ICBs) in England, which is available at the following link:https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistica...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Infant Mortality: Bereavement Counselling

1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that bereaved parents have equal access to specialist psychological support following (a) pregnancy and (b) baby loss.

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Coronavirus: Vaccination

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 74995 on Covid: Vaccination, for what reason (a) spousal household contacts aged under 75 years of immunosuppressed individuals and (b) other

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Health Services: Innovation

27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the role of mayoral authorities will be within Regional Health Innovation Zones.

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Health Services and Social Services

27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 10 Year Health Plan on the roles of mayoral authorities in delivering health and social care services.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Community Health Services

27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role mayoral authorities will play in the delivery of Neighbourhood Health Plans.

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Diabetes: Health Services

27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps NHS England has taken to help identify (a) children and (b) adults at risk of pre-symptomatic Type 1 diabetes; and what assessment has been made of (i) the uptake and (ii) effecti

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Diabetes: Diagnosis

27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people initially coded with (a) pre-diabetes and (b) type 2 diabetes who were later found to have early or established type 1 diabetes in the most recent period for

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Diabetes: Diagnosis

27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the merits of opportunities to (a) enable earlier diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes and (b) reduce incidences of diabetic ketoacidosis; and what actions are being taken by

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Diabetes

27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when NICE plans to review (a) guideline NG17 for Type 1 diabetes in adults and (b) guideline NG18 for Diabetes (type 1 and type 2) in children and young people; and what the timelines are for the n

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Community Care: Mileage Allowances

16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the November 2025 decrease to the Agenda for Change mileage payments for community staff.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

ADHD: Diagnosis

14 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for ADHD assessments for children.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments

27 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report published by Breast Cancer Now, entitled Setting the Bar too High, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the opportunity cost-neutrality requirement