Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans she has to improve access to radiotherapy for patients waiting for cancer treatment.

Since 2016, NHS England has invested over £160m in radiotherapy equipment, resulting in around 100 ageing linear accelerators being replaced or upgraded and meaning that every part of the NHS in England has local access to advanced and innovative radiotherapy techniques and treatments like Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy, for which the list of commissioned clinical indications continues to expand driven by evidence of benefit.