Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to £1 billion dedicated fund to help to support urgent and emergency care services, whether any of that funding will be allocated to private providers.
The £1 billion of dedicated funding to support capacity will be allocated directly to integrated care boards. They will subsequently, as with other commissioning allocations, be responsible for meeting the urgent and emergency care requirements that their locale presents. As such it is not currently possible to say how this funding will be spent.