Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of cancer patients who will require radiotherapy as part of their treatment in each year to 2035.

The number of patients diagnosed with and receiving treatment for cancer is increasing. We expect that these numbers will continue to rise, and consequently that more patients will require radiotherapy as part of their treatment.

The most recently available data shows that between 2021/22 and 2022/23 the number of attendances of patients attending hospital to receive radiotherapy treatment increased from 1,532,846 to 1,635,373, an increase of 6.7%.