To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list by national health service region the hospitals in England which had consultant obstetric and/or general practitioner maternity beds in 1991–92 and 1992–93, with the numbers of beds of each type in each hospital and each region in each year.

The information requested for 1991–92 will be placed in the Library. Figures for 1992–93 are not yet available. Numbers of beds are now collated in terms of directly managed units and national health service trusts. Beds within one unit may be on more than one site or in more than one hospital. The information is set out in three categories: consultant, general practitioner and mixed. The category "mixed" is where bed use can be either for cases referred by consultants or by GPs.