Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS trusts in England spent more on repayments under Private Finance Initiative contracts than on medicines in the most recent financial year for which figures are available.

The information requested is not held centrally. Annual payments, which include facilities management services, under Private Finance Initiative contracts are published annually by the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority, at the following link:

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

Expenditure on medicines is held by NHS England.