§ Norman LambTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list those(a) health authorities and (b) hospital trusts which have not achieved the Government target for all breast cancer patients to wait no longer than one month between diagnosis and treatment by December 2001; [34691]
(2) how many breast cancer patients in each of the last 12 months waited more than one month between diagnosis and treatment, broken down by health authority area; and what the total was in February 1997. [34692]
Yvette Cooper [holding answer 11 February 2002]: The data requested are not available. The target of a maximum wait of one month from diagnosis to first definitive treatment for breast cancer came into effect on 31 December 2001. Central monitoring began on 1 January 2002 and data will be published later in the year.