Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people waited for more than 40 weeks from referral to treatment for (a) hip and (b) knee replacements by NHS Hospital Trust in each month from April 2018 to December 2019.

A count of finished admission episodes with a main operative procedure of hip and knee replacements with a treatment waiting time of more than 40 weeks by National Health Service Hospital trust in each month from April 2018 to December 2019 is attached. This is a count of admissions, not attendees as the same person may have had more than one admission within the time period. Data for 2019-20 is currently provisional.