Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2017 to Question 110492, on NHS: computer software, what that £21 million will be spent on and over what period of time.

£21 million of capital funding will be allocated to major trauma centres and ambulance trusts by the end of December 2017.

The funding supports those organisations to make required information technology investments that:

- Secure their network by upgrading firewalls;

- Improve network resilience and segmentation to minimise risk to medical devices;

- Improve device security by replacing obsolete PCs and the introduction of tools to support the automation of patch management; and

- Improve anti-virus protection.