Simon Burns
Conservative, Chelmsford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients have gained access to the Cancer Drugs Fund in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14 to date.
Norman Lamb
The Minister of State, Department of Health
The information requested is included in the following table:
| Number | |
| Number of patients funded in 2012-131 | 15,456 |
| Number of patients funded 2013-14 to end December2 | 14,137 |
| 1 Source-Information provided to the Department by Strategic Health Authorities. Some individual patients may be double-counted where a patient has received more than one drug treatment through the Cancer Drugs Fund. 2 Source-NHS England. | |
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