HL Deb 07 November 2002 vol 640 c140WA
Baroness Noakes

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 22 July (WA 26), how many advertisements for international establishment projects have been placed in the Official Journal of the European Community to date. [HL6147]

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath:

Work is in hand, as part of the wider capacity planning process currently under way in the National Health Service, to identify a first set of schemes to offer to the market as part of the follow-up to the Growing Capacacity prospectus launched in June this year. We expect the first invitations to tender for these and other schemes to develop diversity of provision in elective surgery in England to be issued in the near future.