Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of private hospital beds were used as a result of providing additional capacity due to the covid-19 outbreak in the last 12 months.

This information is not held in the format requested. The contracts entered into by NHS England with independent sector were for the organisational capability of the hospital providers and for clinical services delivered, not the number of beds to be used.