HC Deb 31 March 1998 vol 309 c509W
Dr. Brand

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list(a) the number of private beds and (b) the proportion of private beds to all beds for each NHS trust each year since 1990. [37109]

Mr. Milburn

This information has never been collected from National Health Service trusts. It was last collected from district health authorities and special health authorities in 1990/91 when there were 2,956 authorised private beds. In the same year the average daily number of available beds in wards open night and day (ie 24 hours) was 255,479.