§ Mr. PriskTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the schemes administered by(a) his Department and (b) its agencies where funds are allocated by a competitive bidding process; and what was the amount of money allocated to each scheme. [19733]
§ Mr. Hutton[holding answer 3 December 2001]The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost. The Department does not keep central records of budgets or schemes where, specifically, competitive bidding processes are used. Officials estimate that there might be hundreds of such budgets across the Department covering administration, executive agencies and programme funding.