Question follow-through · 13319
NHS: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for the future of NHS procurement frameworks.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
8 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for the future of NHS procurement frameworks.
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2024
Answer published
As one of the interventions in the Strategic Framework for NHS Commercial and a workstream in the Commercial Efficiencies Optimisation Programme, NHS England launched an Accredited Framework Host programme in late 2023.The ambition is to drive efficiency ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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