To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether there has been any nugatory cost to his Department and its agencies relating to tendered procurement where the tender process has been cancelled prior to the award of the contract in the last three years. (240388)

The Department paid £16.4 million for cancelled in procurement Private Finance Initiative schemes in 2007.

The Department also paid £10.75 million for cancelled in procurement independent sector treatment centre schemes in the last three years.