Question follow-through · 21722
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) his Department and (b) the Cabinet Office is required to sign off procurement of services over £20m by the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) his Department and (b) the Cabinet Office is required to sign off procurement of services over £20m by the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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14 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Department is not involved in the approval of the procurement of services by National Health Service trusts. Cabinet Office Commercial Spend Controls require that organisations in scope must provide a pipeline of all future commercial activity that is...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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