Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people are prevented from working due to (a) illness and (b) injury and are also on an NHS waiting list.

The data is not held in the format requested, as waiting list data does not capture whether someone is unable to work due to their condition.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) plans to link National Health Service waiting times data to other data sources to analyse the relationship between waiting time duration and labour market outcomes in England. Due to dependencies and unknowns, ONS are not able to confirm when the analysis will be available.