Question follow-through · 7
Health Services: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what NHS services he plans to commission through private providers in the next 12 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 26 Jul 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what NHS services he plans to commission through private providers in the next 12 months.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jul 2024
Answer published
Services are commissioned either by integrated care boards or by NHS England. Commissioners have always worked with private providers to deliver primary and secondary services for the National Health Service, and make decisions based on the specifics of t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Avian Influenza: Disease Control
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Healthwatch
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Health Professions: Hazardous Substances
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NHS England
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