Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wales – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 31 October 1988.
I do not deny that I was perhaps rather rash to repeat the target that my predecessor set in 1986. We cannot achieve these targets overnight, but the hon. Gentleman is a little less than generous. The number of people waiting for more than a month for urgent in-patient treatment fell between March 1987 and March 1988 by almost 30 per cent. That is a rather different figure from those that he quoted.