Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) ventilators and (b) non-invasive ventilators have been delivered to the NHS since 1 March 2020.

At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in March there were more than 8,000 mechanical ventilators in hospitals across the United Kingdom. As of 4 May, we have around 10,900 mechanical ventilators available to National Health Service patients. In addition, there are also 6,291 non-invasive ventilators available to the NHS across the UK which were not available before the start of the crisis in mid-March plus a further 73 from the private sector.