{"value":{"id":837684,"memberId":8,"member":null,"memberRole":"Prime Minister","uin":"HCWS453","dateMade":"2018-02-06T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":23,"answeringBodyName":"Prime Minister","title":"Clarification","text":"<p>During Prime Minister’s Questions on 24 January I understand that the monthly 12 hour figures I used, while accurate and drawn directly from data published by the relevant NHS authorities in England and Wales, are not directly comparable (Official report column 256).</p><p>I should have used the latest annual data which shows that 3.4% patients waited over 12 hours in Wales last year, compared to 1.3% in England, and the latest monthly data on A&amp;E performance which shows that 85.1% of patients in England were seen within 4 hours in December 2017 compared to 78.9% in Wales.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":5,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/837684","method":"GET"}]}