Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of whether there is a differential in waiting times for hospital services provided by hospital trusts in England for residents of (a) Wales and (b) England; and what guidance he has issued to such trusts on that matter.
No such assessment has been made, though a number of studies that include a comparison of elective waits between England and Wales have been published, including that by the Nuffield Trust.