Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2020 to Question 51866 on Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment, for what reason he did not provide the data requested on the estimated cost to the public purse of purchasing and installing proton beam therapy machines at the two UK treatment centres (a) to date and (b) to the point at which those machines become operational.

The Government has invested £250 million in the development of the two PBT centres at The Christie Hospital in Manchester and University College London Hospital. This included construction of the centres and the purchase and installation of the equipment.