Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what sanctions are available to him to address the performance of Capita in the administration of the National Dental Performers List.

David Mowat, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Community Health and Care: NHS England holds the contract with Capita for the administration of primary care support services, including the National Performers Lists, which includes the Dental Performers List. The contract contains a range of remedies to incentivise and address performance. These include the application of financial service credits where agreed levels of performance are not achieved and rectification processes to affect improvement in service performance where this falls below expected levels. Ultimately these measures, where they do not bring about the necessary improvement in performance, lead to rights around termination of the contract in whole or part.

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