Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to release private hospitals from their obligations as contracted by the NHS during the covid-19 outbreak.

On 31 March 2021 the national contracts used during the height of the pandemic came to an end as they were no longer needed. From 1 April 2021 NHS England and NHS Improvement have returned to local commissioning arrangements.