Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many wheelchairs the NHS have issued in the last year.

Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision and commissioning of local wheelchair services.

Data on the number of National Health Service wheelchairs issued is not held centrally. While NHS England collects quarterly data from ICBs through the National Wheelchair Data Collection, which supports the drive for improvements in wheelchair services, this is ICB-level data that does not include specific data on individual services, such as numbers of wheelchairs issued. Further information about the National Wheelchair Data Collection is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/national-wheelchair/