Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the current provision of medium and low secure beds in England; and what percentage of those beds are occupied.

Since April 2013 NHS England has been responsible for commissioning all secure inpatient mental health care services nationally. The current number of beds in medium secure services in England is 3,188 and 3,348 in low secure. The data is provided by NHS England and is taken from the Mental Health Service Review Programme based on 2015/16 contracts.

The percentage of beds occupied will vary, depending on when the information is collected. However, where beds are contracted with an occupancy threshold, this is usually between 93% and 96% across the various contracts held by NHS England for these services.

The information provided refers to adult medium and low secure beds.