Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to section 121 of NHS England's Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy Services Needs Assessment and Service Review, published in November 2014, what the names are of those who supplied the data demonstrating (a) the cost effectiveness of treating patients surgically as against treating with stereotactic radiosurgery, (b) the cost of providing surgical treatment and (c) the cost of providing stereotacic radiosurgery.

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, based in Liverpool, provided the cost information referenced in Section 121 of NHS England's Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy Services Needs Assessment and Service Review, published on 3 November 2014.

Two separate consultation (focus group) meetings were held and chaired by Mr Sean Duffy, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Cancer, involving members of the Radiotherapy Clinical Reference Group (CRG), Adult Neurosurgery CRG, Brain and Central Nervous System CRG, Neurosciences CRG and Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG to agree key principles and options. Details of the membership of each of the CRGs are set out on the NHS England website at the following link:

http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/d-com/spec-serv/crg/