Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the publication of the contracts on the use of private sector beds in response to the covid-19 outbreak.
A Contract Award Notice in respect of each of the 26 individual contracts entered into by NHS England with independent sector hospital providers was published on 16 October 2020 by the Official Journal of the European Union. The Notice can be viewed at the following link:
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:492193-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML