Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing year-round data on the number of patients being treated in temporary care environments.

The Government is clear that patients should expect and receive the highest standard of service, and is determined to tackle the issue of corridor care.

On 30 January, we published Road to recovery: the government's 2025 mandate to NHS England, which set out the priorities and actions to be taken to reform and improve urgent and emergency care services.

We continue to keep the data available and published to support improvements to urgent and emergency care services under review. Subject to data quality, NHS England would intend to publish data collected on the use of temporary escalation spaces in the spring.