Question follow-through · 3430
Health Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients waited (a) 18 weeks or less, (b) 18 weeks and 1 day, (c) 18 weeks and 2 days, (d) 18 weeks and 3 days, (e) 19 weeks, (f) 20 weeks and (g) 21 weeks from refe
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients waited (a) 18 weeks or less, (b) 18 weeks and 1 day, (c) 18 weeks and 2 days, (d) 18 weeks and 3 days, (e) 19 weeks, (f) 20 weeks and (g) 21 weeks from refe
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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1 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Department does not hold data for the daily breakdown of waits. The table attached shows a breakdown in the proportion and number of waits for the weekly time periods requested, taken from the Referral to Treatment Waiting Times published statistics f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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