Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2023 to Question 169238 on Department of Health and Social Care: Procurement, whether his Department plans to make assessments under regulation 57(8)(g) for ongoing procurement for the NHS’ Federated Data Platform contract.

NHS England is the contracting authority for the Federated Data Platform procurement. NHS England intends to apply the mandatory and discretionary exclusion criteria in regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as required by and in accordance with law in relation to the procurement, and accordingly intends to make the assessments to which the question refers.