Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 78110

Radiotherapy

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 17 October 2025

Question

Dame Caroline Dinenage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that every cancer patient who needs it has access to modern and timely radiotherapy cancer treatment.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Government is taking decisive action to get the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster.We have invested £70 million in replacing outdated radiotherapy machines across the NHS with cutting-edge technology that will spe...

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