§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East on 29 April, how many people were on hospital waiting lists in the West Midlands regional health authority as at 31 December 1980.
§ Sir George YoungThe information requested is not yet centrally available. The number of persons on inpatient waiting lists in the West Midlands health region on 31 March 1980, the latest date for which information is available, was 84,550.