Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of corrective surgery performed by the NHS as a result of complications arising from bariatric surgery performed in the private sector.

Neither the Department nor its arm’s length bodies hold the information requested.

On 8 May 2018 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care wrote to the chief executives of leading independent healthcare providers, asking that they improve patient safety in the wider sector, learning lessons from the National Health Service on making services safer and improving quality of care for patients.