Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to which organisations his Department has outsourced functions since 2011.

The Department's central procurement system does not have a separate category for business process outsourcing (private companies delivering services previously provided by the public sector), nor any central means of consistently identifying outsourced services.

To provide a comprehensive list would mean going back to each business area and Directorate in the Department and consulting on which of the contracts they have commissioned are to be considered to be business process outsourcing. This would incur disproportionate costs to produce.