HC Deb 23 November 1995 vol 267 cc327-8W
Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what was the number of long-stay beds in the national health service in 1990 for(a) the elderly, (b) psychiatry, (c) those with learning difficulties and (d) the chronically sick young; and what the figures are under these categories for 1 April. [1140]

(2) if he will estimate the number of available long-stay beds in the National Health Service by I April 1998 and 1 April 2000 for (a)the elderly, (b) psychiatry, (c) those with learning difficulties and (d) the chronically young sick. [1141]

Mr. Bowis

The information available is published in "Bed availability for England", copies of which are available in the Library.