Mike Weatherley
Conservative, Hove
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
The Minister of State, Department of Health
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. | |
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The National Programme for IT focuses on changes to IT in the NHS that will improve patient experience. The programme has four particular goals: electronic appointment booking, an electronic care records service, electronic transmission of prescriptions, and fast, reliable underlying IT infrastructure.
