You asked for statistics on the number of Welsh people being treated in England, the percentage of Welsh people being treated in England, waiting times, and costs to local health boards.

  I can advise you that for the year 2006-07 the number of Welsh patients receiving hospital treatment in non-Welsh Trusts is 48,944. This represents 6.42% of the total number of Welsh patients receiving hospital treatment in 2006-07. These statistics were produced by Health Solution Wales and came from the Hospital Admissions Data On-line.

  With regard to NHS Hospital waiting times for Welsh patients in non-Welsh Trusts, as at the end of March 2008 this was as follows:

Length of wait	Up to 13 weeks	Over 13 and up to 22 weeks	Over 22 and up to 36 weeks	Total
Outpatients—Aggregate of non-Welsh NHS trusts	5,180	924	0	6,104
Inpatients and Daycase admission—Aggregate of non-Welsh NHS Trusts	2,313	473	2	2,788
Taken from Stats Wales report on NHS Hospital waiting times

  Finally, Welsh Commissioners spent £145.9 million on non-Welsh NHS bodies in 2006-07. This includes expenditure on non-contracted emergency activity, where Welsh residents need emergency treatment while away from home, as well as expenditure on regular emergency and elective cross border patient flows.

3 May 2008