Mr. John Swords:

In compliance with the decision in April 2013, where the Government decided that public sector procurement would be dealt with as a collective, the breakout of that was as follows: the Office for Government Procurement would take common goods and services right across the public sector; there were four elements that retained, with public procurement health being one of them; and health within health would be One Voice. The actions that we have taken, and the description of services and systems that we have put in place to assist in compliance, have been put in place. In addition, we brought in One Voice for health in which negotiations took place with the voluntary organisations, both section 38 and section 39, since last year. Since 1 January we have used TUPE to move section 38 organisations into health so we are now speaking as One Voice to the market.