Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse is of private sector health contracts since March 2020.
As of the beginning of November 2020, 937 contracts worth an estimated £17.8 billion have been awarded by the Department and its executive agencies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic for a wide range of products and services, including personal protective equipment, the Test and Trace initiative, ventilators, IT, logistics and medicines.