Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government which hospitals had the highest patient admissions for child asthma in 2022.

A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.

Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.