Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have been treated with the gamma knife at University Hospital, Bristol, since it opened in October 2013; and whether NHS England approved those patients' treatment through individual funding requests.

University Hospital Bristol has advised that it has treated the following number of patients with gamma knife since it opened in October 2013:

Gamma knife is delivered as one treatment per patient. As these patients were all treated under NHS England commissioning policies, individual funding requests were not required.