Figures revealed by the Government show that local cancer patients are receiving thousands of pounds less per patient in treatment than patients nationally.

Official figures show that patients in the East Riding receive just £6,198 in funding, as opposed to a national average of about £8,500. Patients in North Lincolnshire receive more but still receive thousands of pounds less in treatment than patients in other areas.

NHS Campaigner Andrew Percy says, "These figures are truly shocking and demonstrate how unfair funding arrangements are in the NHS. We need to ask serious questions about why our area is missing out when compared to other areas.

The current Labour MP has tried to attack me over these figures but has been embarrassed by the revelation that these are his own Government's figures. This is not the first case of hypocrisy we have seen from the local MP, who is perhaps too busy serving as Vice Chairman of the Labour Party in London to know what is really going on up here.

I won't name everyone in my family who has been touched by cancer as I find that sort of politics a little tasteless. Needless to say, like many families, I have lost close family members to this dreadful disease which is why I will continue to speak out on this appalling funding; despite the cheap attacks of my opponent."