HC Deb 14 February 2000 vol 344 c382W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of treating mouth cancers in each of the past five years; and if he will a statement. [107619]

Yvette Cooper

This information is currently unavailable. Work is, however, under way to develop a system for collecting treatment cost data for oncology services, including mouth cancers. It is hoped that these data will become available next year.