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Written Question
Hospital Beds: Coronavirus
Wednesday 20th May 2020

Asked by: Lord Rosser (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what has been the maximum number of beds (1) available for use, and (2) used, by NHS patients in independent sector hospitals on any one day since the declaration of a Level 4 National incident on 30 January.

Answered by Lord Bethell

It is not possible to provide the data requested.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 12 May 2020
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020

"It is our hard-pressed police who have been left with the unenviable job of enforcing and interpreting these rushed regulations and guidelines, which did not receive proper parliamentary scrutiny prior to being introduced. Inevitably, there have been differences in the interpretation and application of these regulations, which have statutory force, …..."
Lord Rosser - View Speech

View all Lord Rosser (Lab - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020