Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS-funded hip and knee operations have been undertaken by independent providers in each of the last five years; and what percentage of overall NHS hip and knee operations they represent.

A table showing a count of finished consultant episodes with a main or secondary procedure of knee replacement and hip replacement where treatment was carried out by the independent sector, and the proportion these represent of all National Health Service knee and hip replacements from 2012-13 to 2016-17, is attached due to the size of the data.