Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their report The impact of patient age on clinical decision-making in oncology, published on 23 February 2012, what recent assessment they have made of the extent to which age is a factor in oncology treatment decisions.

The Department has made no recent assessment of the extent to which age is a factor in oncology treatment decisions. Each National Health Service patient will be offered the treatment their clinicians consider to be the most effective.