Correspondence between Politicians and Civil Servants

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHS Business Services Authority(NHSBSA). The NHSBSA is separate to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), despite being an Arm’s Length Body of the Department. The NHSBSA does not employ any Civil Servants or Politicians.

However, it is possible that DHSC may hold some or all of the information you require. They can be contacted at:

Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries Unit
Department of Health and Social Care
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NS
Contact form https://contactus.dh.gov.uk/?openform 
Telephone 020 7210 4850 
Fax 020 7210 5952 
Textphone 020 7210 5025

Cost of Issuing Letters

The overall cost of sending the letters referred to in your request was £270,859.10.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ 

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement:
“Overseas Health Service, NHSBSA Copyright 2019” This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ 

Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated.  Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.