HC Deb 20 March 1990 vol 169 cc542-3W
19. Mr. Morley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on competitive tendering within the National Health Service.

Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on competitive tendering within the National Health Service.

127. Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on competitive tendering within the National Health Service.

139. Mr. Nellist

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on competitive tendering within the National Health Service.

Mr. Freeman

Over 40 per cent. of support services in the NHS—to a value of £1¼ billion a year—are now routinely subject to some form of competitive tendering. The White Paper "Working for Patients" provides a framework for further widening the scope for competition. Within that framework it is for each health authority to determine where the most fruitful opportunities arise for using competition to achieve increased effectiveness and value for money at local level.

35. Mr. Illsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many contracts awarded through the competitive tendering process within the National Health Service have not been renewed at the end of the period concerned.

56. Mr. Leadbitter

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many contracts awarded through the competitive tendering process within the National Health Service have not been renewed at the end of the period concerned.

62. Mr. James Lamond

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many contracts awarded through the competitive tendering process within the National Health Service have not been renewed at the end of the period concerned.

117. Mr. John Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many contracts awarded through the competitive tendering process within the National Health Service have not been renewed at the end of the period concerned.

Mr. Freeman

Information is not held centrally on the results of routine renewal of the wide range of NHS contracts which are subject to competitive tendering. This is a contractual matter for the health authority concerned.