HL Deb 24 February 2003 vol 645 cc6-7WA
Baroness Noakes

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will publish the results of their independent sector usage survey for 2001–02. [HL 1265]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath)

The Department of Health has carried out two surveys of National Health Service use of the independent sector for acute elective care in 2000–01. The first survey, begun in October 2001, sought information on actual use in the first half of the year, along with planned use in the second half of that year. Information on actual use in the second half of the year was sought in a further survey begun in August 2002. The results of that further survey are now being collated.