Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many tenders for the NHS Federated Data Platform and Associated Services contract were received by his Department.

NHS England is procuring the Federated Data Platform via an open competition, in line with Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) 2015. The programme is currently part way through an ongoing procurement process that has yet to conclude and is therefore not in a position to disclose any information relating to the procurement exercise including the number of responses received. The programme is aiming to award the contract to the successful supplier in the autumn.