To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many days each hospital started at a (a) level three, (b) level four and (c) level five bed state in accident and emergency in each of the last five years; and how many days each hospital issued a red alert concerning accident and emergency in each of the last five years. (304245)

This information is not collected centrally. Bed capacity management systems are a matter for local trusts. There is no national definition of particular bed states nor of particular colour alerts.