Mr. Robert Watt:

The ultimate responsibility for the procurement strategy rests with the national children's hospital and the day-to-day sanctioning authority was the Department of Health. I do not say that in a way which dumps on them. I am not suggesting for a moment that we are not involved because we are. I have set out our responsibilities and the lessons we can learn from this position. Certainly, my conclusion from this is that it is very hard at this remove, with the benefit of hindsight, to say that was the wrong approach. Clearly, the implementation of that approach did not deliver what we all expected.