Question follow-through · 96286
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Hospital Beds
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of people being held in Accident and Emergency departments due to unavailability of local NHS mental health beds on patients.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of people being held in Accident and Emergency departments due to unavailability of local NHS mental health beds on patients.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
While no such specific assessment has been made, we know that in some local areas there is a need for more beds. This is being addressed in part through investment in new units, although this should be considered as part of a whole system transformation a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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