Pancreatic Cancer
(asked on 23rd June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department allocated for the treatment of pancreatic cancer in each of the last five years.
Data is not available at the level of detail being requested. However, information is shown in the following table on the spend on upper gastrointestinal and ‘other' cancers for the period stated.
Estimated expenditure on upper gastrointestinal cancers and ‘other' cancers, 2008-09 to 2012-13, £ billions in 2012-13 prices
2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | |
Cancers and Tumours - Upper Gastrointestinal | 0.24 | 0.28 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 1.55 |
Cancers and Tumours - Other | 2.21 | 2.57 | 2.95 | 3.00 | 0.63 |
Source:
Programme budgeting data, NHS England
It should be noted that the data are not a reliable source for making year on year comparisons due to changes to the data collection methodology.
Further, not all expenditure can be allocated to a disease based category – therefore some expenditure will be allocated as ‘miscellaneous'. General practitioner expenditure is also not included within the estimates.