questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to retain (a) job numbers and (b) existing terms and conditions when NHS trusts create subsidiary companies.
answerText: Contract award decisions in the National Health Service fall directly to individual NHS bodies, who are responsible for running their own procurement exercises. Ministers at the Department do not have general powers in legislation to direct trusts in rela...
heading: NHS Trusts: Subsidiary Companies