Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.
These initiatives were driven by Lord Owen, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
A Bill to limit the period in which a person may be Prime Minister
A Bill to re-establish the Secretary of State's legal duty as to the National Health Service in England, Quangos and related bodies
A Bill to re-establish the Secretary of State's legal duty as to the National Health Service in England, quangos and related bodies.
Lord Owen has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Data on the average bed occupancy in National Health Service hospitals in England in each year is held from 2010/11 onwards and is shown in the following table.
Year Total bed occupancy General and acute bed occupancy
2010/11 85.4% 87.1%
2011/12 85.3% 86.9%
2012/13 86.2% 88.0%
2013/14 86.3% 88.0%
2014/15 87.2% 89.0%
2015/16 87.2% 88.9%
2016/17 88.3% 90.3%
2017/18 88.2% 90.3%
2018/19 88.0% 90.1%
2019/20 88.0% 90.2%
2020/21 76.0% 76.6%
2021/22 84.8% 86.5%
Source: NHS England
Note: Data for 2021/ 22 includes figures from 1 April 2021 to 30 September 2021.