Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for how many transfers of care was the time taken for their delivery extended awaiting provision of social care in each year since 2010.

The information is not available in the format requested. NHS England publishes a snapshot of the number of patients ready for transfer but still occupying a hospital bed on the last Thursday of each month, and the total number of delayed days during the month for all patients delayed throughout the month. The data show the reasons for these delays and how many delays were attributable to local authority provided social care. A time series of the data from August 2010 is available at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/delayed-transfers-of-care/2016-17-data/

and is summarised in the following table.

Delayed transfers of care attributable to local authority provided social care, 2011-12 to 2016-17