Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS patients have been treated with high-energy proton beam cancer therapy overseas in each of the last five years; and what the cost to the NHS was of those treatments by (a) treatment and (b) travel and subsistence costs.

NHS England has not funded any patients to have high-energy proton beam therapy in England and Wales in the last five years.

Over the past five years, 895 National Health Service patients have been treated overseas with high-energy proton beam therapy at a total cost of just over £91 million. These figures include patients from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland but exclude patients from Wales. NHS England does not routinely split financial information between treatment and travel/subsistence costs. Further detail is provided in the following table.