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Fabian Hamilton: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) the number and percentage increase in consultant clinical oncologists over that same period and (c) the number of consultant clinical ncologists per capita by Integrated Care System or NHS Trust area, including identification of the five areas with the lowest consultant-to-population ratios. \p Ashley Dalton: 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/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics

It should be noted that the change in doctors working in the specialty of clinical oncology is between February 2024 and February 2025, the latest period for which data is available.

As of February 2025, there were over 1,800 full time equivalent doctors working in the speciality of clinical oncology in NHS trusts and other core organisations in England. This is almost 150, or 8.9%, more than in 2024.

The change in the total number of full-time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in the specialty of clinical oncology employed by NHS trusts and ICBs in England between 31 December 2020 and 31 December 2023 was 14.1%; the change over the same period in consultant clinical oncologists was 12.2%.

The following table shows the number of FTE consultant clinical oncologists employed by NHS trusts or ICBs per million population by ICB area for February 2025:

ICB

Consultant Clinical Oncologists – FTE, February 2025

ONS Projected Population, June 2025

Consultant Oncologists (per 1,000,000 population)

Mid and South Essex

-

1,232,502

-

Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin

-

533,260

-

Humber and North Yorkshire

1.1

1,744,824

0.6

South West London

5.8

1,557,624

3.7

Frimley

3.0

791,237

3.8

West Yorkshire

23.2

2,497,926

9.3

Coventry and Warwickshire

9.6

1,016,366

9.4

Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire

9.7

980,250

9.9

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent

11.8

1,167,873

10.1

Somerset

6.0

590,928

10.2

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

11.1

1,060,963

10.5

Black Country

13.9

1,249,119

11.1

Sussex

20.5

1,768,736

11.6

Northamptonshire

9.5

817,757

11.6

North East London

25.6

2,147,223

11.9

Lancashire and South Cumbria

21.3

1,779,694

12.0

North Central London

18.0

1,485,975

12.1

Cheshire and Merseyside

36.4

2,620,678

13.9

Lincolnshire

11.2

795,667

14.1

North East and North Cumbria

46.0

3,070,741

15.0

Norfolk and Waveney

17.5

1,071,923

16.3

Derby and Derbyshire

17.9

1,091,150

16.4

Herefordshire and Worcestershire

13.6

815,030

16.7

Suffolk and North East Essex

17.8

1,028,298

17.3

Greater Manchester

52.2

3,008,589

17.4

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

10.7

596,108

17.9

Gloucestershire

12.4

671,296

18.5

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

24.4

1,198,878

20.4

Hampshire and Isle of Wight

39.3

1,893,635

20.8

Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

25.3

1,184,050

21.4

Kent and Medway

42.0

1,932,162

21.8

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West

42.3

1,870,248

22.6

South East London

42.1

1,861,345

22.6

North West London

52.9

2,222,784

23.8

Dorset

19.7

802,632

24.6

South Yorkshire

36.0

1,432,349

25.1

Surrey Heartlands

28.0

1,085,724

25.7

Birmingham and Solihull

36.5

1,407,053

26.0

Hertfordshire and West Essex

44.0

1,540,310

28.6

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

27.8

964,041

28.8

Devon

37.4

1,268,832

29.5

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

33.5

1,037,500

32.3

England

957.1

58,893,277

16.3

Source: NHS England

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