§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital beds have closed in London since the Tomlinson report was published.
§ Mr. MaloneThe Tomlinson report used data for 1990–91. Provisional examination of the 1993–94 bed data for London suggests that the reduction in the number of available acute sector beds, excluding day beds, over the period 1990–91 to 1993–94 has been 1,896.