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Mr. Simon Burns
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were waiting in England for in-patient treatment at the latest date for which figures are available. [97837]
Mr. Hutton
The number of patients waiting for elective inpatient admission at National Health Service trusts and primary care trusts in England at 31 December 2002 was 1,056,600.