Question follow-through · 77009

Department of Health and Social Care: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of his Department's procurement contracts were awarded to companies in the West Midlands in the 2024-25 financial year.

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 15 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 13 Oct 2025
Answer: 13 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of his Department's procurement contracts were awarded to companies in the West Midlands in the 2024-25 financial year.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Oct 2025
Answer published
Five contracts were awarded by the Department to suppliers which had registered addresses and postcodes in the West Midlands area of England in 2024/25. This is 1.5% of the total number of contracts awarded by the Department in that financial year.Larger ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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