NHS: ICT

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS spent on information technology in the last three financial years; how much of this money was spent on (a) software development and testing, (b) software applications, (c) staff training in information technology and (d) the cost of new hardware and software.

Mr. Mike O'Brien
The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.