Question follow-through · 67702
Surgery: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the implementation by some NHS Integrated Care Boards of minimum waiting times for elective treatment; and what assessm
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Aug 2025 · 25 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the implementation by some NHS Integrated Care Boards of minimum waiting times for elective treatment; and what assessm
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Aug 2025
Answer published
There is no formal policy supporting minimum waits in the National Health Service. However, the NHS Standard Contract technical guidance for 2025/26 states that commissioners may choose to include minimum waiting times in Activity Planning Assumptions to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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