Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services, published on 30 January 2023, what progress his Department has made on its target to create 5,000 emergency care beds.

We are continuing to make progress to deliver the 5,000 staffed, permanent beds set out in our Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan, supported by £1 billion of additional funding. NHS England has worked with integrated care boards to review local demand and capacity and ensure plans are put in place to deliver the increases to National Health Service capacity needed to deliver this ambition.