§ Mr. Leadbitterasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the numbers on the hospital waiting lists nationally, in hospital regions, and in the Hartlepool group of hospitals.
§ Mr. AlisonThe numbers at 31st December 1972 were as follows. Figures for the end of 1973 are not yet available.
England 479,199 Hospital regions (including teaching hospitals) Newcastle 25,856 Leeds 23,132 Sheffield 49.652 East Anglian 16,393 North-West Metropolitan 49,234 North-East Metropolitan 29,692 South-East Metropolitan 34,093 South-West Metropolitan 26,540 Oxford 22,247 South-Western 41,453 Birmingham 56,660 Manchester 63,263 Liverpool 20,157 Wessex 20,827 Hartlepools HMC 1,219