Well, thank you for the series of questions in there. I don’t share your optimistic assessment that if people understand there’s a test or the risk of cancer that people will undertake the test. I’m not even sure that a lot of people don’t make that choice. So, there are lots of risk factors for health outcomes that people ignore. There is often a very high awareness of health behaviours and their impacts. The challenge then is how we persuade people to change their own behaviours, and how we make it easy for them to do that, whether it’s smoking, drinking, exercise—a whole range of factors.

And, in particular in terms of the 62-day target, I recognise that we have not met our stretching target. It’s, of course, one of those things—we have a higher target than England; if we had the English target, we’d meet it on a regular basis. So, there is still something, not just about comparing ourselves with England, but about having some real ambitions for outcomes. Because one of the things we can take real comfort from, and optimism from, is not just the fact that more and more people are being diagnosed, being seen and treated, but also that cancer survival rates are improving.

But our challenge, and our ambition, in the refreshed cancer delivery plan must be to make sure that our services are in a sustainable position, so we tackle the backlogs that exist on waiting times for treatment, and where the best available treatments are available on a consistent basis. Actually, our ambition is to have cancer survival rates that compare with the best in Europe because, right across the UK, we don’t do well enough, and there’s got to be some honesty and some recognition that that’s where we are now, to see the benefit and the improvement that we’ve had, and to recognise that too, but, at the same time, to have some real ambition about the future and then have a practical way to map that forward. The delivery plan won’t just be something that is in the hands of Government. We will have a cross-sector partnership, involving the voluntary sector too, as well as the NHS, as well as Government, on taking the plan forward, and then, hopefully, making sure we see a successful implementation across the board.