NHS Patients (Private Sector Care)

HC Deb 26 February 1996 vol 272 c380W

Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of NHS funding is now used to buy care in the private sector. [15759]

Mr. Richards

The annual accounts submitted by health authorities and GP fundholders for 1994–95 show that 1 per cent. of expenditure by health authorities and GP fundholders was used to purchase care in the private sector.