Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many delayed discharges of mental health hospital patients there were in each year since 2010, broken down by categories of reasons for the delay.

This information is not collected in the format requested. Although NHS England does publish snapshot data each month showing the number of patients that had a delayed discharge on one particular day that month, it is not possible to extrapolate accurate yearly data from these reports.