Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2022 to Question 26865 on Cancer: Medical Treatments, what recent progress his Department has made on completing the Prior Information Notice and market engagement exercise on the use of selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT).

Ten National Health Service trusts are currently commissioned to provide selective internal radiation therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer. Following publication of Technology Appraisal 688 by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, seven of the 10 trusts confirmed interest in also treating hepatocellular carcinoma. This is now expected to rise to around 15 trusts, following completion of a market engagement and Prior Information Notice process.