Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of mental health beds per 100,000 people in England; and what information his Department holds on the number of mental health beds per 100,000 people in each country in the EU.

The NHS England collection KH03 collects the number of available and occupied beds open overnight that are under the care of consultants. In Q1 2018-19, there was an average of 18,394 consultant-led mental health beds available in England. This represents 33.3 of this specific type of bed per 100,000 people in England.

Source: Quarterly KH03 beds return, NHS England https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy/bed-data-overnight/

People with mental health conditions are increasingly being cared for by a wider range of health professionals, in multi-disciplinary teams, in different settings. We are investing in new models of care focusing on early intervention and prevention which will ultimately reduce the need for inpatient beds and ensure that people receive treatment in the most appropriate place. There is no data available for the total number of acute mental health beds in the National Health Service in England.

Figures for other European Union countries are not available.