Richard Bacon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Bacon on 2016-09-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has paid BT for the licensing, deployment and support of acute IT systems in the south of England.

Mr Philip Dunne

Information regarding payments made by National Health Service trusts to BT is not held centrally.

The Department, to the end of financial year 2015-16, paid BT £0.5 billion in respect of services it delivered to acute and community and mental health trusts in the south of England under the BT Local Service Provider contract. This contract has now closed.