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Question follow-through · 50992

NHS: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2025 to Question 46236 on NHS: Contracts, what assessment he has made of the number of staff working in the NHS for non-NHS providers (a) nationally and (b) in the B

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
8 May 2025
Target answer date
12 May 2025
Answer
14 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2025 to Question 46236 on NHS: Contracts, what assessment he has made of the number of staff working in the NHS for non-NHS providers (a) nationally and (b) in the B

  2. 12 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 May 2025

    Answer published

    Neither the Department nor NHS England hold data on the number of staff working in the National Health Service for non-NHS providers.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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