Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made on the number of mental health beds that are currently available in West Lancashire.

Information on the number of mental health beds is not held at constituency level. The average number of consultant-led, overnight, mental illness beds available in Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust is 518 as at Q3 2018/19.

Note:

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust (RW5) is used as an indication of consultant-led mental illness beds available in West Lancashire

Source: KH03 NHS England and NHS Improvement

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy/