Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of symptomatic breast appointments in Barts Health NHS Trust in each of the last five years.

The following table provides a summary of referrals to Barts Health NHS trust for suspected breast cancer under the national two week wait operational standards, both for urgent general practitioner suspected cancer and for the symptomatic breast two week standard.