Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has issued guidance to NHS bodies in East Antrim constituency on the use of out-of-date cancer treatment machinery.

Health policy is largely devolved, and the Government therefore has not issued guidance to National Health Service bodies in Northern Ireland on the use of out-of-date cancer treatment machinery. However, my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, is keen to work together with the Devolved Governments to improve health and care policy, including cancer policy, across the United Kingdom.