(2) what estimate she has made of the additional surgical capacity required in the Southampton primary care trust area over the next five years; and what proportion of this she expects to be provided by the proposed Southampton independent sector treatment centre.
The information requested is not held centrally. It is the responsibility of NHS South Central, which includes the former Hampshire and Isle of Wight strategic health authority area, to plan surgical capacity and develop the requirement for the independent sector treatment centre in Southampton.
The Department is working on capacity mapping analyses of the proportion of elective care, by specialty, that will flow to all the providers in the health economy over five years, but these are not ready at this stage.