Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the NHS budget was spent on commissioning private providers in each of the last five years.
The requested information is supplied in the following table:
| 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
| £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million |
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Total commissioner spend on independent sector | 5,320 | 5,669 | 6,467 | 8,067 | 8,722 |
Total National Health Service revenue expenditure | 100,266 | 102,570 | 106,495 | 110,554 | 114,730 |
Spend on independent sector as a percentage of total NHS revenue spend | 5.3% | 5.5% | 6.1% | 7.3% | 7.6% |