Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of availability of NHS beds.

NHS England publishes quarterly information on the numbers of available and occupied beds open overnight or day only in National Health Service organisations, most recently for quarter 2 of 2016-17.

National time series of these data are available at:

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

and

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