Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish NHS Digital's assessment of the performance of EMIS against its service level agreement governing the supply of electronic patient record systems.

I refer the hon. Member to my Written Ministerial Statement to the house on 18 January 2018 HCWS406. On Monday 15 January 2018 EMIS Group PLC notified NHS Digital regarding under-reporting of issues with their general practice clinical systems provided under the General Practice Systems of Choice contract. A detailed investigation by NHS Digital is ongoing, and we will provide a further update to Parliament once this important work is complete.