Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS elective procedures were carried out by the independent sector in each of the last 10 years.

The Department does not hold this data for the last 10 years.

However, a breakdown of independent sector weekly activity for both inpatient and outpatient activity from 11 July 2021 to 6 August 2023 is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/recovery-of-elective_activity-mi/

NHS England data shows that from 1 August 2021 to 30 July 2022, a total of 4,014,730 National Health Service elective inpatient and outpatient appointments were completed by the independent sector. From 31 July 2022 to 5 August 2023, the total number of NHS elective inpatient and outpatients that were completed was 4,854,125.