§ Sir Anthony GrantTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps are being taken to reduce waiting lists at hospitals in the East Anglia region; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyProvisional figures show for January 1992 that since last March, East Anglian health authority, backed by £1.36 million from the waiting list fund, has reduced the number of patients waiting over two years by 75 per cent. and the number waiting over one year by 43 per cent. in January alone the number of patients waiting over two years fell by 51 per cent. The authority expects to have no patient waiting over two years by 31 March.