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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 November 2017.

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Photo of Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Hunt The Secretary of State for Health 12:00, 14 November 2017

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s question. As he knows, 150 more people are starting cancer treatment every single day compared with 2010, which is why there are 7,000 people alive today who would not have been if we had the cancer survival rates of five years ago. However, we are still behind western European averages, and we want to do something about that. A big investment in capital equipment for cancer is therefore something that we are prioritising.