NHS: Procurement
(asked on 1st March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the NHS budget was spent on commissioning private providers in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 6th March 2017
The requested information is supplied in the following table:
| 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
| £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million |
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Total commissioner spend on independent sector | 5,320 | 5,669 | 6,467 | 8,067 | 8,722 |
Total National Health Service revenue expenditure | 100,266 | 102,570 | 106,495 | 110,554 | 114,730 |
Spend on independent sector as a percentage of total NHS revenue spend | 5.3% | 5.5% | 6.1% | 7.3% | 7.6% |