Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 55631

NHS Trusts: Subsidiary Companies

Tabled: 30 May 2025

Answered: 10 July 2025

Question

Tom Hayes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, (b) University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust and (c) Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust on t

Answer

Karin Smyth

Contract award decisions in the National Health Service fall directly to individual NHS bodies, who are responsible for running their own procurement exercises. Ministers at the Department do not have general powers in legislation to direct trusts in rela...

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