Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on using private hospital facilities and clinics for additional care capacity for (a) cancer care, (b) elective surgery and (c) other procedures during the covid-19 outbreak.
Total actual costs are expected to be made available by the autumn, subject to contracts being reconciled by both NHS England and NHS Improvement and the independent sector.