§ Dr. Mawhinneyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many of those who were on hospital waiting lists on 1 November or any other convenient date of each year from 1976 to 1981 had been waiting for (a) less than one month, (b) more than one month and less than three, (c) more than three months and less than six, (d) more than six months and less than 12, (e) more than one year and less than two and (f) more than two years.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergInformation on waiting times is not held centrally in such detail as my hon. Friend requests. The following table shows for 30 September in each year the total number of urgent cases on waiting lists and the number of those who had been waiting more than one month, and the total of non-urgent cases and the number of those who had waited over one year.
the availability of resources and local judgments about the balance between developing services for elderly people and other competing priorities.