Philip Davies – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements are in place to ensure that grants made by his Department under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 are awarded transparently.

Alistair Burt

The majority of grants made under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 are awarded through competed schemes where the assessment criteria are published. A small number of non-competed grants are also made by the Department and these are all assessed against the same criteria.

The standard business case criteria includes a Strategic Case, Economic Case, Financial Case, Commercial Case and Project Governance.

All grants awarded under Section 64 powers require both HM Treasury and Ministerial approval as set out in the legislation.

A standard set of terms and conditions are used for all Section 64 grant awards, these have been agreed by the Departments legal team.