HC Deb 05 March 1991 vol 187 cc119-20W
Mr. Madden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the Bradford hospitals national health service trust assumed responsibility for hospitals in Bradford; when the contract for catering was signed with Taylorplan Services Ltd.; whether he was asked to supply any information about companies tendering for the catering contract; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The Bradford hospitals NHS trust was established on 17 December 1990 and has certain functions, which include entering into contracts, before it becomes fully operational on 1 April. The tenders and the contract for catering services are a matter between the Trust and the contractors concerned and the Department has no direct involvement.

Mr. Madden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of the technical evaluation by Price Waterhouse of the tender submitted by Taylorplan Services Ltd. to North Lincolnshire district health authority in 1988; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

No. The evaluation was a contract matter between Price Waterhouse and the North Lincolnshire district health authority, and formed only part of a wider tendering exercise by that authority. Its contents are commercial in confidence. I can confirm that the authority has awarded two contracts to Taylorplan Services Ltd.