Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to restore levels of access to multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging scans for patients with suspected prostate cancer to pre-pandemic levels.

During the pandemic, access to multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging scans of the prostate increased. In 2020, 10,780 multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging scans of the prostate were performed, compared to 7,395 in 2019.