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Written Answers — Health: NHS: Computer Software (12 Nov 2009)

Richard Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his latest estimate is of the average number of hours per week that users of the Lorenzo software system are logged in at (a) Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust, (b) Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (c) University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, (d) Hereford Hospitals Trust and (e) South Birmingham Primary Care Trust.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Computer Software (11 Nov 2009)

Richard Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much local service providers have been paid for the (a) set-up costs and (b) running costs of each of the Lorenzo systems deployed in NHS trusts; and what his latest estimate is of the average cost per site of deploying the Lorenzo software system.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Computer Software (11 Nov 2009)

Richard Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his most recent estimate is of the highest number of live concurrent users of the Lorenzo software system at NHS Bury (a) at any one time and (b) on any one day.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Information and Communications Technology (11 Nov 2009)

Richard Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the projected lifetime costs are in respect of each contractor under the National Programme for IT in the NHS; and how much each such contractor had been paid on the latest date for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Information and Communications Technology (29 Oct 2009)

Richard Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what his latest estimate is of the number of users of the Lorenzo software system at (a) Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust, (b) Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (c) University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, (d) Hereford Hospitals Trust and (e) South Birmingham Primary Care Trust; (2) what his latest estimate is of...

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: On the point about shared services, will the Exchequer Secretary always bear in the back of her mind, if not the front, the Committee's report on shared services in the Department for Transport? That was the project that cost about double the amount it was supposed to save and the computer spoke to people in German.

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: I was interested to hear what my hon. Friend said about renegotiation of contracts because one argument that is sometimes adduced—wholly falsely, in my view—is that there would be such huge penalties that it would not be possible for contracts to be renegotiated. Does he agree that since disputes with IT contractors never end up in court and since IT contractors want to work for...

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: I am sure that we are all equally horrified by the fact that the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) has finally brought his remarks to a conclusion. I thought that he was just getting into his stride, but alas, we shall have to wait until next time. It is a great pleasure to take part in this debate and a particular pleasure to see the Exchequer Secretary in her place, because she...

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: I am afraid that the answer is extremely hard to find. The Government will say that value for money has been obtained precisely because the original contract required that suppliers were not to be paid until they had delivered, but the position is not quite as simple as that. In some instances suppliers have been paid by the back door in respect of other programmes, and it is therefore...

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: In light of what my hon. Friend has just said about the national programme for IT, does he agree that the Treasury minute answering conclusion 6, which basically says that the Department remains confident in the potential of both Cerner's Millennium and Isoft's Lorenzo to work effectively, is remarkably optimistic?

Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry: New Clause 1 — Implementation of section 1 (7 Jul 2009)

Richard Bacon: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there was a keen awareness on the part of not only our constituents, but the Government? Sir Nick Macpherson, the permanent secretary at the Treasury, gave evidence to the Public Accounts Committee at the time, in which he clearly said that a thorough and detailed distributional analysis was done. They knew exactly what the effects would be.

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Parliamentary Standards Bodies (18 Jun 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: Will the Leader of the House explain what role, if any, the commission headed by the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) will have in relation to the Parliamentary Standards Authority—and, by the way, when will that commission report?

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?