Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) inpatient child and (b) adolescent mental health beds have there been in the NHS in each of the last 12 years.

This information is not collected in the format requested, as the data does not differentiate between child and adolescent mental health beds. Information was not collected centrally prior to 2017/18. However, the following table shows the number of child and adolescent inpatient mental health beds commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement at the beginning of each financial year from 2017/18.

Source: NHS England and NHS Improvement