Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many disabled people of working age remain in hospital despite being declared fit for discharge because their local integrated care board has declined to pay for their care in the community.

The Government does not hold this data. NHS England publishes monthly data on the number of patients who remain in hospital despite no longer meeting the clinical criteria to reside and the reasons for this. However, this does not specify whether delays are attributable to decisions by integrated care boards on funding community care packages; additionally, the data is at an aggregate level so cannot be linked to disability status or age.