Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged over 50 were on NHS hospital waiting lists for in-patient treatment on the latest date for which figures are available.

The information is not collected in the format requested. Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times are collected and published each month and include information on the number of patients who are waiting to start treatment at the end of the month. However, these data do not include information on either the age of these patients or whether their treatment will involve inpatient treatment. Latest data shows 3.1 million patients were waiting to start treatment at the end of June 2014.