Question follow-through · 102755

Surgery: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on meeting the 18-week treatment targets set out in the Elective Reform Plan.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 5 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 7 Jan 2026
Answer: 12 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

5 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on meeting the 18-week treatment targets set out in the Elective Reform Plan.
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to returning, by March 2029, to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to consultant-led treatment (RTT). NHS England’s Operational Planning Guidance ...

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