Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people on NHS waiting lists in England in (a) 2010 and (b) 2019.
NHS England publishes performance data on a monthly basis, including the current waiting lists for consultant-led Referral-to-Treatment (RTT).
The RTT waiting list in March 2010 was 2.42 million, compared to 4.23 million in March 2019. The most recent data from July 2019 indicates a current RTT waiting list of 4.37 million.
Published data on RTT waiting times is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/