Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of hospital beds there are per one thousand of the population in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.

The information is not available in the format requested.

NHS England publishes quarterly data on hospital bed availability and occupancy. This can be found at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy/

Health is a devolved matter which means the devolved administrations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland determine their own methods for capturing and publishing data on their number of hospital beds.