§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the number of neurological consultants in each NHS region in each of the last 10 years. [116272]
§ Mr. DenhamThe latest available information is shown in the table.
§ Yvette CooperI have recently announced £1 million funding for urgent research studies into prostate cancer. This is in addition to the extra £800,000 we have already committed for new prostate cancer research, which includes a £277,000 feasibility study for a trial of 129W treatments of localised prostate cancer detected early by a prostate cancer screening test. Funding for the main trial will be considered in the light of the findings from the feasibility study.
A range of information on men's cancers—including prostate cancer—is already freely available. Additionally, general practitioner guidelines on urgent referrals of patients with suspected prostate cancer will be published shortly, and outcomes guidance on urological cancers—including prostate cancer—will be commissioned by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence within the next two years.