Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2023 to Question 147198 on Surgery: Private Sector, what the total cost to the public purse was of the 1,891,632 NHS-funded procedures carried out by non-NHS providers in the financial year 2021-22.
This information is not collected in the format requested. Data on the procedures performed by non National Health Service providers and the associated cost is not held by the department.