§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report details of the provision of megavoltage treatment machines for radiotherapy in terms of numbers of machines and per hundred thousand population in Wales.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThere are four linear accelerators, two of four, one of eight and one of 18 megavolts available to radiotherapy patients in Wales, excluding north Powys, Gwynedd and Clwyd, who receive their radiotherapy services from English regional health authorities. This equates to one machine per 535,000 population.