§ Ms PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what plans she has to collect and publish data on private beds in the NHS in the years after 1990–91;
(2) how many individual NHS/pay bed units there were in each region including special health authorities in each of the last five years; and how many pay beds there were in these units in each of those regions in each of the last five years;
(3) how many authorised pay beds there were in 1991–92 in (a) special health authorities, (b) in each region and (c) in England as a whole.
§ Mr. SackvilleTrusts do not "authorise" pay beds and therefore we no longer collect authorised pay bed numbers. Private patient income is recorded in the summarised accounts of health authorities and trusts. This information is used to monitor the extent of private patient activity.