PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health Services: Hospital Beds (7 June 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 7 June 2021 to Question 3088 on Mental Health Services: Hospital Beds, how many mental health beds there were in each financial year from (a) 2010 to (b) 2021.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

NHS England and NHS Improvement hold information on mental health beds classified as consultant-led only, which is shown in the following table.

Year	Consultant-led mental health beds
2010/11	23,447
2011/12	23,149
2012/13	22,396
2013/14	21,950
2014/15	21,547
2015/16	19,045
2016/17	18,731
2017/18	18,295
2018/19	18,366
2019/20	18,171
2020/21	17,610

Source: KH03 data collection, NHS England and NHS Improvement

Note:

The figures are averages across the year, calculated as weighted averages from the four quarters.

Since 2009/10, many trusts have started classifying some mental illness beds as non-consultant-led. Information on these beds is not collected centrally.

Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
17 June 2021