Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in England have been waiting longer than (a) 52 weeks, (b) 104 weeks, (c) 156 weeks from referral to treatment in England.

Data is not available in the format requested.

NHS England publishes monthly data for Referral to Treatment waiting times on its statistical work areas website at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/rtt-data-2017-18/

This includes data on the total number of incomplete patient treatments where the waiting time has been over 52 weeks, which in the latest reporting period of January 2018, was 1,869.