Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for stroke patients to be admitted to a stroke unit.

The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ sets out how the National Health Service will recover and expand elective services over the next three years, including in stroke units. We have allocated more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to increase elective activity. This is in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund made available in 2021/22. The Delivery plan and the National Stroke Programme is supporting local organisations to deliver improved prevention measures, treatment and care for stroke patients in England.