To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much South Central Strategic Health Authority has spent on the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre's (a) foundation trust diagnostic exercise, (b) strategic options exercise with KPMG and (c) Stage 1 financial viability assessment; and how much it is estimated will be spent on Stages 2 and 3 of the financial viability assessment. (200966)

[holding answer 24 April 2008]: The information requested is not held centrally. It is for South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) to work with Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust to develop the strategic future of the trust. The hon. Member may therefore wish to raise this with the chief executive of South Central SHA.