Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department expects NHS England to publish reliable national data on the number of patients receiving care in corridors, waiting rooms, ambulance queues and other temporary care environments; and whether that data will be published at trust level.

NHS England introduced a national definition of corridor care and began publishing validated corridor care data at a trust level for the first time on 11 June 2026. The data continues to be published through the monthly NHS Performance Statistics publication.

As this is a new national dataset, it is currently designated as Statistics in Development. NHS England will continue to improve data quality and completeness over time before considering whether the statistics are ready to move beyond this designation. The Department has not set a date by which this will occur.

Trust level data will continue to be published alongside the national statistics.