Megavoltage Treatment Machines

HC Deb 29 February 1984 vol 55 cc257-8W

Mr. D. E. Thom

as asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report details of the provision of megavoltage treatment machines in each health region and expressed per hundred thousand population.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

[pursuant to his reply, 15 February 1984, c. 238.]: The figures given for North West Thames and South West Thames were incorrect. The table should read as follows:

Region	Home Population* (Thousands)	Megavoltage Treatment Machines	Per 100,000 Population
Northern	3,106.8	8	0.26
Yorkshire	3,597.0	8	0.22
Trent	4,598.6	12	0.26
East Anglian	1,914.7	8	0.42
NW Thames	3,449.6	25	0.72
NE Thames	3,732.5	21	0.56
SE Thames	3,584.2	18	0.50
SW Thames	2,945.8	11	0.37
Wessex	2,776.6	7	0.25
Oxford	2,364.9	7	0.30
South Western	3,084.7	11	0.36
West Midlands	5,182.2	14	0.27
Mersey	2,442.9	3	0.12
North Western	4,018.1	6	0.15

^* Mid 1982 Provisional Estimates