Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2020 to Question 128690 on health services: private sector, if he will publish the (a) total cost and (b) cost per month of his Department's contracts for private sector capacity in each month since 1 June 2020.

Total actual costs relating to the national contracts entered into by NHS England with independent sector providers for private sector capacity are expected to be made available by the autumn, subject to reconciliation by both NHS England and NHS Improvement and the independent sector.