Written question asked by Charlie Elphicke (Conservative) on Tuesday, 18 October 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 20 October 2011. It was answered by Simon Burns (Conservative) on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Government Procurement Card

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the (a) date of purchase, (b) amount and (c) supplier of each transaction undertaken by the Appointments Commission using the Government Procurement Card was in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10;

Answer: The documents containing the information requested, where available, have been placed in the Library.Data provided by the Appointments Commission covers transactions between 23 September 2009 and 31 March 2010 which their service provider was able to access through their on-line query system. Information before this period is held in paper format and would require manual extraction, which would incur disproportionate costs.Data provided by the Health Protection Agency covers the last four months of financial year 2009-10. Earlier records are only available subject to service provider's contractual terms of two to three weeks, and a fee.NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) has provided supplier details from February 2009 onwards. Information prior to this date is held on a separate finance ledger of a previous organisation. NHS BSA have provided earlier transaction information but it would not be possible to obtain supplier detail without disproportionate costs.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 76038; 534 c195-6W
Session: 2010-12
Related items: Deposited Paper DEP2011-1679
Monday, 24 October 2011
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects: Department of Health Electronic purchasing card solution
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