Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were living with a diagnosed brain or inter-cranial tumour on the last date for which figures are available.

The most recent data available shows that at the end of 2015, there were 15,004 people in England living after a diagnosis of brain cancer.

This data are available in the ‘Cancer Prevalence in England – 21 year prevalence by demographic and geographic measures’ table, available here:

http://www.ncin.org.uk/about_ncin/segmentation