Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for cancer test results (a) at York Hospital and (b) in England in 2009-10 and each subsequent year.

Information is collected on waiting times from referral to test, but not from test to test result and is published online at:

http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/

The collection includes all waits for 15 key diagnostic tests and procedures, but it is not possible to identify which were for suspected cancer.