HC Deb 19 January 2004 vol 416 cc994-5W
Mrs. Iris Robinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to his answer of 7 January 2004,Official Report, column 406W, on hospital trolley waits, whether the December statistics represent (a) an estimate for the full month and (b) a total number collected on weekdays only. [148860]

Angela Smith

The December trolley wait statistics represent the number of trolley waits recorded in Accident and Emergency departments in Northern Ireland at 9.00am on weekday mornings. These figures show the total number of trolley waits reported by Accident & Emergency Departments at a point in time (9.00am) on week days during December.