Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which private hospitals (a) Ministers, (b) Special Advisers and (c) senior officials of his Department have visited in each of the last 18 months; and what the subject of those visits was.
Ministers and Special Advisers visit a range of hospitals, which may include private hospitals and these cover aspects of their role in their capacity as Ministers and Special Advisers. Information of senior officials visiting private hospitals over the past 18 months is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.