Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients waited longer than four hours in A&E departments in 2014.

Of almost 22.4 million attendances at all accident and emergency departments in England in 2014, 94.5% of patients were seen within the four hour standard. Of these, just over 1.2 million patients spent over four hours in accident and emergency from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge.