Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to (a) monitor and (b) report on the progress of work to reduce waiting times for joint replacement surgery at a (i) national and (ii) local level.

Waiting time data for joint replacement surgery is published in the trauma and orthopaedic dataset in referral to treatment data, with progress regularly monitored. The data is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/