Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the NHS England document Next steps on the five year forward View published in March 2017, how many (a) NHS Trusts and (b) Care Commissioning Groups met the objective for over 90 per cent of emergency patients to be treated, admitted or transferred within 4 hours in (a) and (b) before September 2017.

In September 2017, 86 out of 172 National Health Service trusts met the objective to treat, admit or discharge 90% of patients within four hours, while one NHS trust did not submit data for this period. The available data are not broken down by clinical commissioning group.

In August 2017, 98 out of 173 NHS trusts treated, admitted or transferred over 90% of patients within four hours.

Accident and emergency statistics are published monthly and can be found online at the following address:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/