To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has decided whether BT and CSC have met the criteria published by Connecting for Health on 29 October 2009 for delivery of IT solutions to the NHS through the National Programme for IT. (304240)

The Department set an end of November deadline for achieving significant progress, in terms of implementing information systems which support electronic records for patients, against published criteria for success. It will take some time to judge progress against all of the criteria and we are currently reviewing all of the outcomes in order to decide the best way forward.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many open issues are logged against the Lorenzo software system. (303848)

As at 1 December 2009, the number of open issues logged against the Lorenzo software system by live national health service trusts was 453.

Many of the open issues are of low business impact, and there is a rolling schedule to resolve them in line with trusts' priorities.