Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) general and (b) acute beds available in the NHS.
The latest general and acute bed data available is for Quarter 4 2020/21. This shows the average daily number of general and acute beds open overnight was 96,313 with an average occupancy rate of 83.0%. It also shows there were 11,259 general and acute, day only beds with an occupancy rate of 69.3%.