§ Miss WiddecombeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many patients were suspended from National Health Service waiting lists for reasons other than clinical unfitness for surgery in(a) 1996 and (b) 1997; [53016]
(2) what projection he has made of the number of patients who will be suspended from National Health Service waiting lists for reasons other than clinical unfitness for surgery in 1998; [53015]
(3) what proportion of the estimated reduction in waiting lists based on provisional figures is accounted for by (a) administrative clean-up and (b) reprioritisation of the list; and if he will make a statement; [53140]
(4) if he will estimate the number of patients who have been removed from waiting lists since 2 May 1997 without their consent and without having received the treatment originally intended; and if he will make a statement. [53008]
§ Mr. MilburnInformation is not available centrally in the form requested.