HC Deb 21 July 1988 vol 137 c831W
Mr. Fearn

To ask the Secetary of State for Social Services if he will give the number on waiting lists by region and specialty for each year since 1974 to date.

Mr. Newton

Summaries of hospital waiting lists by region for 1979 onwards have been placed in the Library. I am arranging for copies from 1975, the first year these figures were collected on a comparable basis, to 1978 to be similarly placed.