Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of elective knee replacement surgery has been outsourced to the private sector in the last three years.

The proportion of elective knee replacement operations which have been commissioned by the National Health Service from the private sector in the last three years is shown in the following table. Figures represent the number of operations – not the number of patients – as some patients may have more than one operation.