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Written Question
Social Services
Thursday 16th October 2014

Asked by: Pat Glass (Labour - North West Durham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of private equity owned firms which are commissioned by local authorities to provide social care services; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Norman Lamb

The information requested is not collected centrally. Local authorities are free to commission social care services to suit local need. The Department does not specify which providers local authorities should commission services from.