NHS: Ict
Health
Mike Weatherley (Hove, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on NHS IT projects undertaken by companies with headquarters outside the UK in 2009.
Simon Burns (Minister of State (Health), Health; Chelmsford, Conservative)
Comprehensive information about information technology (IT) procurements by national health service organisations is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
The spend by the Department for the National programme for IT in the 2009-10 financial year is given in the following table.
| Table: Spend on projects undertaken by companies with headquarters outside the UK | |
| £ | |
| Accenture | 10.04 |
| Atos | 33.75 |
| Atos Consulting Ltd | 1.36 |
| Atos Origin IT Services UK Ltd | 2.80 |
| Cable and Wireless UK | 23.50 |
| CSC | 213.00 |
| CSC Computer Science | 0.23 |
| Fujitsu | 37.26 |
| Fujitsu Services | 0.40 |
| Total | 322.36 |
| Note: These figures are inclusive of VAT and rounded to the nearest £ million. | |