Written question asked by Richard Bacon (Conservative) on Monday, 5 September 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 7 September 2016. It was answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative) on Monday, 12 September 2016 on behalf of the Department of Health.

NHS: ICT

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much to date the NHS has paid Fujitsu for the licensing, deployment and support of acute IT systems in the South of England.

Answer: The Department is currently in arbitration proceedings with Fujitsu and these are on-going and confidential and confidentiality is a specific contractual obligation upon parties to the proceedings. As the subject matter of the arbitration proceedings is a contractual dispute, the Department has significant commercial interest in ensuring that no internal information regarding these proceedings is placed in the public domain. The Department is therefore unable to provide this information as the disclosure may prejudice the commercial interests of the Department.

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