Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of NHS hospital beds currently occupied by patients who are medically fit for discharge because appropriate social care provision is unavailable.

NHS England publishes monthly trust-level data on the reasons for discharge delays, which differentiates between delays caused by in-hospital processes, care transfer hub processes, the process of health and care partners arranging onwards care, and capacity shortages in the system across community health, housing and adult social care providers.