Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many claims for financial loss have been made against the Primary Care Support England by (a) GPs, (b) local medical committees (c) dentists and (d) other people for each of the last three years; how many and what proportion of those claims have been settled; what the average time taken was to settle those claims; how much has been paid out in compensation; and which organisation is liable for that compensation.

Primary Care Support England services are provided by Capita Business Services Ltd under contract with NHS England. NHS England advises that it has received the following claims for financial loss in respect of the services provided by Primary Care Support England:

NHS England takes the matter of addressing claims of financial loss extremely seriously. However, given that the process of considering and deciding on claims is on-going it would be inappropriate to provide information on the duration, compensation rate and number of outstanding settlements at this point.