An MP has criticised cuts to cancer services in his constituency after a Freedom of Information request revealed the scale of the imposed reductions. 

The Sheffield Star report:

Barnsley MP Michael Dugher has said budget cuts to a cancer network are ‘throwing it into chaos’.

He spoke out after a Freedom of Information request showed the Yorkshire Cancer Network had its funding cut by £513,000 – or 38 per cent – between 2009/10 and 2012/13.

The network supports and promotes the implementation of improvements in cancer care and also develops strategies

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Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.