Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out total spending by NHS Commissioners on private health providers in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
The Department does not hold all of the information centrally.
Total spending by NHS Commissioners on private health providers in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available is shown in the table below.
NHS Commissioners' spend on non NHS bodies by organisation type
Year | Total spend on independent sector £ million |
2006/07 | 2,193 |
2007/08 | 2,916 |
2008/09 | 3,419 |
2009/10 | 4,144 |
2010/11 | 4,757 |
2011/12 | 5,320 |
2012/13 | 5,669 |
2013/14 | 6,467 |
2014/15 | 8,067 |
2015/16 | 8,818 |
2016/17 | 9,007 |
Note:
The numbers above have been collected separately from audited accounts data and may include estimates.