Question follow-through · 41423
Hospitals: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of NHS appointments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of NHS appointments.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
We have already achieved our pledge to deliver two million extra elective appointments in England, as a first step to delivering on the commitment that 92% of patients will wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to consultant-led treatment by March 20...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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