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Mr. Leadbitter
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the numbers on the hospital waiting lists nationally, in hospital regions, and in the Hartlepool group of hospitals.
Mr. Alison
The numbers at 31st December 1972 were as follows. Figures for the end of 1973 are not yet available.
| England | 479,199 |
| Hospital regions (including teaching hospitals) | |
| Newcastle | 25,856 |
| Leeds | 23,132 |
| Sheffield | 49.652 |
| East Anglian | 16,393 |
| North-West Metropolitan | 49,234 |
| North-East Metropolitan | 29,692 |
| South-East Metropolitan | 34,093 |
| South-West Metropolitan | 26,540 |
| Oxford | 22,247 |
| South-Western | 41,453 |
| Birmingham | 56,660 |
| Manchester | 63,263 |
| Liverpool | 20,157 |
| Wessex | 20,827 |
| Hartlepools HMC | 1,219 |