Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many hospital beds there are in NHS England.
The latest published data shows a total of 131,862 available beds under the care of a consultant in England, in quarter one of 2024/25. This compares to a total of 136,459 available beds in quarter one of 2013/14. Data on National Health Service bed numbers is published on the NHS England website.