Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in (a) Greater Manchester ICB and (b) England are waiting for an appointment with a specialist respiratory clinician following a referral from their GP.

The number of cases where patients on a consultant-led referral to treatment pathway were waiting for a first appointment under the Respiratory Medicine or Paediatric Respiratory Medicine treatment functions as of 20 April 2025 in the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board was 7,417, and in England was 150,484.