Question follow-through · 121058
NHS: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS services were outsourced to private contracts in Surrey in each year between 2022 and 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS services were outsourced to private contracts in Surrey in each year between 2022 and 2025.
18 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2026
Answer published
Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning local National Health Services and contracting with providers, including in Surrey. Information is not routinely collected by the Department on the number of services outsourced to private providers...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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