Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients requiring proton beam therapy were treated overseas in each of the last five years; and how many such patients were on the high priority list of cancers.
The number of patients accepted for proton beam therapy treatment overseas for the last five years are as follows:
2009-10: 34 patients
2010-11: 54 patients
2011-12: 74 patients
2012-13: 99 patients
2013-14: 124 patients
Total: 385 patients
All of these patients were treated in accordance with the clinical indications list.