Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of commissioned hospice in-patient beds that are unavailable because of funding pressures and what can be done to get these beds back in use.

The data requested is not centrally held, but on the wider issue raised, I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 13 July in response to Question 16185, which sets out the steps that the Government is taking to support hospices throughout England.