To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the oral answer of 6 February 2007, Official Report, column 703, on private sector treatment, what further assessment she has made of the ability of the Bodmin Private Treatment Centre to achieve the 100 per cent. capacity target of its contract throughout the financial year 2006-07; and what proportion of contracted procedures were completed at the (a) Bodmin and (b) Plymouth treatment centres in each quarter since the contract commenced, broken down by procedure. (130777)

The local national health service remains confident that the Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre will reach full utilisation in the near future.

The Department measures independent sector treatment centre contract performance on the basis of value rather than activity. This is to allow for the variations, which can occur through substitution of activity between procedures of varying value.