§ Mr. Michael Brownasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will consider issuing guidelines covering competitions for National Health Service ancillary service contracts to ensure that in-house tenders are not able to exclude the cost of rent, rates, maintenance, electricity, telephone bills, and so on, from their tenders.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeHealth authorities have been advised in circular HC (83) 18 to include in-house overheads in the comparison of costs to the extent that they would be saved when a private contractor is used