Richard Bacon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Bacon on 2016-09-05.

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

Nicola Blackwood

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

The Department, to the end of financial year 2015-16, has paid BT £1.1 billion for services it delivered to acute and community and mental health trusts in London under the BT Local Service Provider contract. This contract has now closed.