Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost per patient of the NHS migrating IT clinical systems to a new supplier.

In England the clinical commissioning group (CCG) fund practice migrations and place the order for the IT systems on behalf of the practice while the Government pays for the essential parts. The CCG or the practice will then pay for additional features. General practitioner (GP) practices can apply to NHS England for reimbursement of costs including the purchase, upgrading and maintenance of IT used by the practice in relation to the delivery of GP services. CCGs are paid a contribution of £2,000 from NHS Digital to support a practice migration. That contribution provides central funding of 25p per patient towards the cost of the average practice migrating to a new supplier.