Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) CT, (b) MRI, (c) X-ray, and (d) PET machines his Department plans to purchase to support the expansion of community diagnostic centres in England.

This information is not currently held in the format requested as the specification of services for future community diagnostic centres (CDCs) has not yet been confirmed. Business cases for the next cohort of CDCs are being finalised and decisions on the procurement of computerised tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and X-ray scanners will be made following the outcome of this process.

Positron emission tomography machines are not used within CDCs.