Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish (a) key performance indicators, (b) a strategy and (c) a timeline for achieving key targets of the Elective Recovery Taskforce announced on 7 December 2022.

The Taskforce will meet regularly to inform our understanding of challenges in the system and potential solutions to ensure that all available capacity is used to reduce waiting times for patients. This will be supported by research and analysis to develop recommendations and an implementation plan in early 2023.