§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if any cleaning and maintenance subsidiary firms of Setspace have been removed from health authority lists following the liquidation of the parent company Endless Holding;
(2) if any arrangements are made to seek to ensure that cleaning and essential maintenance work continues uninterrupted in hospitals affected by the liquidation of private firms contracted in for cleaning and maintenance services;
(3) if his Department maintains a list of companies previously tendering for health authority contracts which have gone into liquidation; and how authorities seek to ensure that successor companies tendering and using the same personnel are operationally viable;
(4) how many companies have gone into liquidation while undertaking National Health Service cleaning and maintenance contracts; which companies they were; and which hospitals were affected.
§ Mr. HayhoeThese are matters for health authorities. The information requested is not collected centrally.