Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times the A&E department at Pinderfields General Hospital was closed in 2015.

Information is not available in the format requested. Information is available at National Health Service trust level only and not by individual hospital site.

NHS England advises that information is collected in the winter daily situation reports from NHS trusts about whether there was an unplanned, unilateral closure of an accident and emergency department to admissions without consultation, which occurred without agreement from neighbouring NHS trusts or from the ambulance trust.

Published figures are available covering the periods 1 January 2015 to 27 March 2015 and 5 October 2015 to 31 December 2015. Figures for the remainder of 2015 are not held centrally. Published figures can be found using the following link.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/winter-daily-sitreps/