Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the NHS meets core targets on performance, including (1) the standard of 95 per cent of patients being admitted, discharged or transferred within four hours of arrival, (2) the 18 week referral-to-treatment target for planned (elective) consultant-led care, and (3) the 62 day wait standard for cancer.

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.