§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list by country and region the Ministry of Defence hospitals in the United Kingdom which had consultant obstetric and/or general practitioner maternity beds in 1980, 1985 or the most recent year for which figures are available and give the numbers of beds of each type in each hospital and in each year.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonOf the eight service hospitals in the United Kingdom, four have consultant-led obstetric units. There are no general practitioner maternity beds in United Kingdom service hospitals.
The statistical historical information on available bed numbers for 1980 and 1985 relates only to the overall number of beds for each hospital and is not broken into specialties. The details of the current allocation of service hospital beds to obstetrics, based on 1989 figures, are shown in brackets:
NHS region and hospital Number of beds Obstetric beds 1980 1985 1989 1989 South West Thames Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot (Army) 1220+65 256 265 (66) East Anglia The Princess of Wales Royal Air Force Hospital Ely 142 174 176 (22) Wessex Princess Alexandra Royal Air Force Hospital Wroughton 170 154 182 (16) Oxford Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Hospital Halton 280 271 231 (10) 1 The 65 bed Louise Margaret Maternity Hospital Aldershot was amalgamated into the CMH Aldershot in 1984.