§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make it his policy to require each NHS trust to publish information regarding the frequency of closure of admittance to emergency hospital beds. [638]
§ Mr. RichardsI have no such proposals, but I would expect trusts to make this information available locally on request.
§ Mr. JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the frequency of the closure of admittance to emergency hospital beds, expressing the number of beds so closed as a proportion of the total number of hospital beds and indicating the percentage increase or decrease, in each case, for each NHS trust and for Wales as a whole for the last two years for which information is available. [898]
§ Mr. RichardsOperational information of this kind is not held centrally.