Cancer: Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to confirm governance arrangements and progress reports for the National Cancer Plan to Parliament.
Answered by Mrs Sharon Hodgson
The National Cancer Plan, published on the 4 February 2026, sets out several commitments and ambitions, to be delivered within the next 10 years. The role of the reformed National Cancer Board will be to support and monitor the delivery of the commitments and ambitions and to provide regular updates to ministers. The board will be co-chaired by the Director General for Planned Care in the Department and an independent representative. It will meet once a co-chair is appointed.
Across the life of the plan, ministers will publish an annual summary of progress, along with a more in-depth report after three years to assess where the plan may need updating and refreshing. The annual summary will be available publicly and ministers would welcome the opportunity to update the House when it is published.
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