Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of the NHS budget has been spent (a) in the private sector and (b) on contracts awarded to the private sector since May 2010.
The Department does not hold the information as requested.
Total spending by National Health Service commissioners on private health providers since 2008/09 for which figures are available is shown in the attached table.