Question follow-through · 84178
Surgery: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to Question 76564 on Surgery: Waiting Lists, whether NHS England holds information on which ICBs use minimum waiting times for elective care.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to Question 76564 on Surgery: Waiting Lists, whether NHS England holds information on which ICBs use minimum waiting times for elective care.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2025
Answer published
Following consultation, NHS England publishes the NHS Standard Contract annually for use by commissioners in contracting for National Health Service-funded healthcare services. The Department is involved in the consultation process on the Standard Contrac...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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