asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hospital beds per 1,000 population there are in each health area in England.Dr. Vaughan: The information for 1978 is as follows:
| Average Daily Number of Available Beds per 1,000 Population |
| Northern Regional Health Authority | | 8·3 |
| Cleveland | … | 6·9 |
| Cumbria | … | 7·7 |
| Durham | … | 8·6 |
| Northumberland | … | 14·3 |
| Gateshead | … | 6·5 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | … | 12·0 |
| North Tyneside | … | 3·8 |
| South Tyneside | … | 4·9 |
| Sunderland | … | 8·2 |
| Yorkshire Regional Health Authority | … | 8·5 |
| Humberside | … | 7·4 |
| North Yorkshire | … | 8·5 |
| Bradford | … | 8·4 |
| Calderdale | … | 7·3 |
| Kirklees | … | 9·1 |
| Leeds | … | 8·8 |
| Wakefield | … | 11·5 |
| Trent Regional Health Authority | | 7·1 |
| Derbyshire | … | 7·0 |
| Leicestershire | … | 6·1 |
| Lincolnshire | … | 9·0 |
| Nottinghamshire | … | 7·0 |
| Barnsley | … | 4·3 |
| Doncaster | … | 6·2 |
| Rotherham | … | 5·0 |
| Sheffield | … | 9·9 |
| Average Daily Number of Available Beds per 1,000 Population |
| East Anglian Regional Health Authority | 7·1 |
| Cambridgeshire | 6·6 |
| Norfolk | 7·2 |
| Suffolk | 7·7 |
| North West Thames Regional Health Authority | 8·3 |
| Bedfordshire | 5·9 |
| Hertfordshire | 8·5 |
| Barnet | 7·4 |
| Brent/Harrow | 8·2 |
| Ealing/Hammersmith/Hounslow | 7·0 |
| Hillingdon | 7·1 |
| Kensington and Chelsea/Westminster | 14·8 |
| North East Thames Regional Health Authority | 8·2 |
| Essex | 6·8 |
| Barking /Havering | 8·7 |
| Camden/Islington | 13·0 |
| City and East London | 8·3 |
| Enfield/Haringey | 5·3 |
| Redbridge/Waltham Forest | 11·5 |
| South East Thames Regional Health Authority | 8·2 |
| East Sussex | 7·2 |
| Kent | 8·3 |
| Bexley/Greenwich | 8·6 |
| Bromley | 9·3 |
| Lambeth/Southwark/Lewisham | 8·4 |
| South West Thames Regional Health Authority | 9·1 |
| Surrey | 10·0 |
| West Sussex | 6·2 |
| Croydon | 10·2 |
| Kingston/Richmond | 8·9 |
| Merton/Sutton/Wandsworth | 10·0 |
| Wessex Regional Health Authority | 7·1 |
| Dorset | 6·6 |
| Hampshire | 6·8 |
| Wiltshire | 7·9 |
| Isle of Wight | 8·3 |
| Oxford Regional Health Authority | 6·1 |
| Berkshire | 6·6 |
| Buckinghamshire | 5·4 |
| Northamptonshire | 5·8 |
| Oxfordshire | 6·6 |
| South Western Regional Health Authority | 8·2 |
| Avon | 9·5 |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 6·6 |
| Devon | 8·3 |
| Gloucestershire | 6·5 |
| Somerset | 9·7 |
| Average Daily Number of Available Beds per 1,000 Population |
| West Midlands Regionald Health Authority | 7·2 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 9·0 |
| Salop | 7·2 |
| Staffordshire | 6·6 |
| Warwickshire | 7·8 |
| Birmingham | 9·8 |
| Coventry | 5·7 |
| Dudley | 4·9 |
| Sandwell | 2·3 |
| Solihull | 4·6 |
| Walsall | 7·0 |
| Wolverhampton | 5·9 |
| Mersey Regional Health Authority | 9·2 |
| Cheshire | 10·6 |
| Liverpool | 11·5 |
| St. Helens with Knowsley | 3·3 |
| Sefton | 10·5 |
| Wirral | 7·6 |
| North Western Regional Health Authority | 7·5 |
| Lancashire | 9·8 |
| Bolton | 5·3 |
| Bury | 4·2 |
| Manchester | 11·7 |
| Oldham | 4·8 |
| Rochdale | 4·6 |
| Salford | 12·1 |
| Stockport | 5·8 |
| Tameside | 3·6 |
| Trafford | 4·0 |
| Wigan | 4·6 |