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Mr. Flynn
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the number of hospital beds available in every Welsh health authority area in each of the past 10 years for which records are available.
Mr. Grist
Details of average daily available beds in each Welsh health authority for the years 1980 to 1988–89 are published in the relevant issues of "Hospital Bed Use Statistics" copies of which are in the Library. The information for 1989–90 (the latest available) is given in the table:
| Average daily available beds—year ending 31 March 1990 | |
| Health authority | Number |
| Clwyd | 2,442·8 |
| East Dyfed | 1,578·8 |
| Gwent | 3,208·0 |
| Gwynedd | 1,586·6 |
| Mid-Glamorgan | 4,047·2 |
| Powys | 908·0 |
| South Glamorgan | 3,271·8 |
| West Glamorgan | 2,343·1 |
| Pembrokeshire | 469·1 |