National Health Service

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wales – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 31 October 1983.

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Photo of Mr Wyn Roberts Mr Wyn Roberts , Conwy 12:00, 31 October 1983

I can give the hon. Gentleman the waiting list figures. He will realise when I give them that we have made considerable progress in reducing them between 1979 and March 1982. The total inpatient figure for March 1979 was 39,527. By March 1982 we had reduced it to 32,628. We then had the industrial dispute, and of course waiting lists have increased since then.