Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of using NHS hospital facilities to treat private patients on waiting times for elective surgery in (a) Wirral West constituency and (b) England.
The information requested is not held centrally. No specific assessment has been made of the impact that delivering care for private patients has on National Health Service hospitals or elective waiting times.