Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who are (a) waiting for (i) trauma and (ii) orthopaedic treatment and (b) are unable to work until they are treated who will be supported to (A) receive their treatment and (B) re-enter the workforce.

The Department has not made such an assessment.