Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will instruct West Hertfordshire NHS Hospitals Trust to publish any contracts they have signed with private developers for the Watford hospital site; and if he will make a statement.

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has advised that it has not signed any contracts with private developers for the Watford hospital site.

Public procurement is regulated in the United Kingdom by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102). The Regulations require the publication of details of all contract opportunities and certain information about contracts awarded on Contracts Finder, unless a specific exception applies. The rules apply to contracts awarded by National Health Service trusts above £25,000 although the procurement of certain health care services is exempt.

The Contracts Finder website can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder