Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2015 to Question 219495, how much the NHS plans to spend on commissioning independent providers (a) in total and (b) excluding not-for-profit providers in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
The Department does not hold information on individual contracts awarded, as these are decisions for local clinically-led commissioning groups.