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Primary Care Trusts

Volume 461: debated on Wednesday 6 June 2007

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Mr. Stephen O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) pursuant to the answer of 24 April 2007, Official Report, column 1052W, on primary care trusts, when the first draft of the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) notice was written; and when her Department’s director of commissioning was made aware of the OJEU notice; (138977)

(2) what involvement Simon Stevens had in drafting (a) the original Official Journal of the European Union notice on primary care trust commissioning published on 29June 2006 and (b) subsequent versions.

Andy Burnham

The notice was drafted in the weeks leading up to its submission to the Official Journal of the European Union on 9 June. The Director General of the Commissioning Directorate was sighted on the notice before its submission.

Simon Stevens had no involvement in drafting the notice.