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Children: Health

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) pursuant to the answer of 21 April 2008, Official Report, column 1777W, on child health who the suppliers are of information for appendices 4, 7, 13 and 17; and what those documents refer to; (221443)

(2) pursuant to the answer of 12 December 2007, Official Report, column 634W, on the Child Health Interim Application (CHIA) for what reasons (a) the output based specification for the CHIA options appraisal report and (b) the weighting and scoring spreadsheet are commercially sensitive.

The documents in question comprise the following:

Appendix 4: Description of Standalone Service Community Solution (extract from output based specification);

Appendix 7: Supplier Responses (from CSW Group, CSE Servelec, McKesson UK, Health Solution Wales) to Child Health Standalone Service Requirements VI.0 04/08/06;

Appendix 13: Supplier Responses (from CSW Group, CSE Servelec, McKesson UK, Health Solution Wales) to Additional NHS Questions Post Demonstration;

Appendix 17: Weighting and Scoring Template (BT document).

Following further discussion with BT, the basis on which this material was withheld previously—namely, that it would, or would be likely to, cause prejudice to the commercial interests of the suppliers—has been reviewed. While appendices 7 and 13 continue to be judged commercially sensitive, copies of appendices 4 and 17 have now been placed in the Library.