| Heading: |
Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment |
| Question ID: |
1798798 |
| UIN: |
49345 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4089 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Tessa Munt
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Tessa Munt
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of restricting the radiotherapy machine fund to replacing only end of life machines on his Department's ability to make new radiotherapy capacity |
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true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-06 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
The £70 million fund will replace older radiotherapy machines with new, more efficient radiotherapy machines, which will in turn increase treatment capacity and allow more patients to be treated.All future spending commitments beyond 2025/26, including th... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |