§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will place in the Library figures(a) by district health board and (b) in total for the number of operations cancelled on the day of, or the day after, admission to hospital and the number of those patients not readmitted within a month for the third quarter of 1996–97. [13859]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonI refer the hon. Member to my answer to him on 23 January 1997,Official Report, columns 749–50. Figures for cancellations of planned admissions for in-patient and day case treatment for the third quarter of 1996–97 are not yet available.