Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2022 to Question 117796, whether his Department has retained (a) records of its financial assessments of suppliers of personal procurement equipment and (b) ratings of those suppliers as red, green or amber.

The Department cannot comment on individual contracts where disclosure would be likely to prejudice commercial interests. Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act exempts information where disclosure would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of any person.