Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost was of Private Finance Initiative contracts within the NHS in Essex in the latest financial year.

Unitary Charge payments associated with Private Finance Initiative contracts are captured in the annual National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority data collection, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pfi-and-pf2-projects-2024-summary-data