§ Mr. GunnellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answers to the hon. Member for City of Durham (Mr. Steinberg) of 29 January,Official Report, columns 269–72 on PFI schemes in the health service, if he will list for each PFI scheme within his Department's responsibility not included in those answers information equivalent to that set out in the table in columns 271–72. [14852]
§ Mr. HoramThe table gives the information requested for schemes, where the information is held centrally which have reached preferred bidder status or beyond, and which are not included in the tables referred to in my reply to the hon. Member for the City of Durham (Mr. Steinberg) on 29 January at columns269–72.
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Trust Scheme Preferred bidder Health authority approval1 FBC approval Contract signature Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust Patient Hotel and Conference Facilities 2— October 1995 October 1995 October 1995 Warrington Hospital NHS Trust Magnetic Resonance Imager 2— December 1994 October 1995 November 1995 Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust Staff Residences 2— October 1995 October 1995 16 January 1997 Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust HISS 2— October 1995 23 August 1996 6 December 1996 Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Trust HISS 2— February 1996 29 February 1996 July 1996 Lancashire Ambulance Services NHS Trust Mobile Radio Communications Systems 2— October 1995 9 July 1996 3— East Cheshire NHS Trust Patient Management Systems 2— October 1996 9 October 1996 3— Hull and Holderness4 Community Health NHS Trust Replacement of Withernsea Hospital 2— 2 August 1996 5 December 1996 3— Southampton Community4 Health Services Lymington Hospital Reprovision 2— 3— 3— 3— South Kent Community4 Health Care NHS Trust Community Hospital in Tenterden 2— October 1996 October 1995 3— 1 Date of Health Authority not known centrally for cases which have not received full business case approval. 2 Selected. 3 Not yet approved or signed. 4 These three schemes are for new hospitals which the NHS Executive have been informed of since the answer given in column 271–272 of the Official Report of 29 January 1997. 5 Not applicable either because the Health Authority itself is commissioning the scheme or because Health Authority approval is not required in cases where the scheme has no impact on the method or delivery of clinical services.