Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to (1) identify, and (2) address, the needs of patients who are medically fit to be discharged from hospital but are unable to leave because of delays in transfers of care.

We are making available £500 million to support safe and timely discharges from hospital. We committed a further £200 million to fund short term National Health Service step-down care packages and wrap-around primary and community health services to support patients' recovery. The Government has also provided an extra £50 million in capital funding to expand ambulance hubs and hospital discharge lounges, designed to accommodate patients waiting for short term delays to transfers of care.