Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were discharged from mental health hospitals as part of the Government's response to the covid-19 outbreak between March and April 2020.

The total number of discharges from mental health hospitals in England during the period requested is shown in the following table. COVID-19 is not one of the options available to record the reason for a patient being discharged.

Source: Mental Health Services Data Set, NHS Digital

Notes:

¹A person may have had been discharged more than once within any given period.

² Data for April 2020 are still being collected and analysed.