Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for breast reconstruction has been since March 2020.

This information is not held in the format requested as Hospital Episode Statistics data is collected by financial year. In 2020/21, the mean average waiting time for breast reconstruction between a decision to admit and admission to hospital was 209 days, with an average median waiting time of 140 days. Provisional data for 2021/22 shows that the mean average waiting time was 256 days, with a median average of 132 days.