HC Deb 21 April 1988 vol 131 cc548-9W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the district health authorities whose information-gathering ability has been responsible for the delay in his publishing the hospital waiting list figures for September 1987.

Mr. Newton

The following district health authorities were unable to supply a complete set of September 1987 waiting list figures :

Cambridge Brighton
Norwich Dartford and Gravesham
Huntingdon Maidstone
Paddington and North Tunbridge Wells
Kensington Camberwell
North Derbyshire West Surrey and North East
South Derbyshire Hampshire
Leicestershire South West Surrey
North Lincolnshire Mid Surrey
South Lincolnshire Chichester
Bassetlaw Mid Downs
Central Nottinghamshire Kingston and Esher
Nottingham Merton and Sutton
Barnsley Portsmouth
Doncaster Winchester
Rotherham Bath
Sheffield Hereford
Swindon Kidderminster
Oxfordshire Worcester
Solihull North Staffordshire
Preston South Warwickshire
Oldham East Birmingham
Hartlepool West Birmingham
Riverside Sandwell
Enfield Wandsworth

In addition the September 1987 waiting list data supplied by the following district health authorities had large inconsistencies :

Darlington Rugby
South West Durham Central Birmingham
South Tyneside East Birmingham
Sunderland South Birmingham
East Yorkshire Coventry
Leeds Eastern Blackpool Wyre and Fylde
North Hertfordshire Bolton
Haringey Chorley and South Ribble
Redbridge Bury
Worthing North Manchester
East Dorset Central Manchester
West Dorset South Manchester
West Berkshire Salford
Aylesbury Vale Tameside and Glossop
North Devon Wigan
Bromsgrove and Redditch

Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he will be releasing the hospital waiting list figures for September 1987.

Mr. Newton

I hope to do so shortly.