Question follow-through · 21459
Radiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department plans to use to determine which trusts or hospitals will receive new radiotherapy machines.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department plans to use to determine which trusts or hospitals will receive new radiotherapy machines.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2025
Answer published
The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England is currently developing. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that p...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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