Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of minimum and maximum payments terms for suppliers to the NHS.
Further to the answer given on 14 October 2015 to Question 11175, in June last year the Department and the Cabinet Office Mystery Shopper scheme carried out spot checks with a number of trusts to find out the level of take up of the new NHS Terms and Conditions. The results showed 90% of the trusts contacted confirmed they were using (or intended to use) the new sets of NHS Terms and Conditions.