Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many procedures for (a) gastric band, (b) gastric bypass, (c) sleeve gastrectomy, (d) duodenal switch and (e) other bariatric surgeries were carried out in 2023.

The total number of finished consultant episodes carried out in the 2022/23 reporting period was:

- 48 for gastric band;

- 2,568 for gastric bypass;

- 2,231 for sleeve gastrectomy;

- 15 for duodenal switch; and

- 1,592 for other bariatric surgeries.