Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of extent of the backlog in referrals for pulmonary rehabilitation services; and what his Department's timescale is for tackling that backlog.

As pulmonary rehabilitation data is not routinely collected, NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with the newly established Respiratory Clinical Networks to understand the backlog that services face and to develop plans for how they can support systems to restore services.