§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the answer of 21 June,Official Report, column 259, what information his Department or the NHS executive holds on the costs associated with (a) market testing and (b) compulsory competitive tendering in the NHS. [33158]
§ Mr. SackvilleInformation is held on the value of a large number of individual service contracts which have been notified to the national health service executive by NHS trusts and other Units. Individual contract values are not released except with the prior agreement of the two parties concerned. It is not yet possible to access the information on contract values by numbers above or below a given size without detailed scrutiny of the full list of contracts.