Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2017 to Question 1736, whether his Department holds any information on how much the NHS has paid private healthcare companies for the provision of (a) eating disorder and (b) mental health services since 2010.

This data is not collected in the format requested. NHS England directly commissions specialised services for mental health and eating disorders; including those for National Health Service services in the independent sector. Other services for eating disorders and mental health services are commissioned by clinical commissioning groups.