Question follow-through · 17823
Cataracts: Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to tackle the backlog of cataract operations, including for those who need the operation to undertake driving exams.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Members: Correspondence · 28 Aug 2026
- Dentistry: Higher Education · 15 Sept 2026
- Dental Services: South West · 15 Sept 2026
- Diseases: Children and Young People · 15 Sept 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
10 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to tackle the backlog of cataract operations, including for those who need the operation to undertake driving exams.
14 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2026
Answer published
As set out in the Plan for Change, we are committed to returning to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to consultant-led treatment by March 2029. We met our interim target of...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Members: Correspondence
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when her Department plans to reply to the correspondence of 26 June 2026 from the hon. Member for Torbay.
Dentistry: Higher Education
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans her Department has to increase the number of undergraduate dentistry places.
Dental Services: South West
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans her Department has to increase the number of dentists in a) Torbay and b) the South West.
Diseases: Children and Young People
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the "Improving affordable access to essential medicines, diagnostics and health technologies for children a