Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) procurement processes his Department has run for contracts for after the UK leaves the EU since 23 June 2016 and (b) bids his Department has received from suppliers for services for after the UK has left the EU.

The Department uses BravoAdvantage e-procurement system for running procurement processes. This system captures all procurement activity where the strategic procurement team is involved. BravoAdvantage was introduced in December 2017, therefore only procurements after this date can be extracted.

There are 29 contracts that extend beyond the date the United Kingdom plans to leave the European Union. There were 161 tender responses in respect of those contracts.