Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has received representations on whether Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group was quorate at its meeting of 29 June 2016 when it awarded the contract for musculoskeletal services to Circle Holdings PLC; and if he will make a statement.

The procurement of local health services by means of competitive tendering is a matter for the local National Health Service.

The Department has not received any representations on the matter of whether Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) was quorate at its meeting of 29 June 2016 when it awarded the contract for musculoskeletal services to Circle Health.

We are informed by NHS England that the CCG follows standard NHS procurement procedures and these procedures were followed for this procurement.