Disclosure Team Ministry of Justice 102 Petty France London

SW1H 9AJ

Hywel Loveluck [email protected] [email protected] 30 May 2019

Dear Mr Loveluck,

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request – 190520010

Thank you for your request received on the 20 May 2019 in which you asked for the following information from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ):

I would like to make an FOI request regarding all recent dental contracts for the following institutions in england and waleas • HM prisons an Young offenders institutes • High security hospitals • Immigration and removal centres • Secure Training centres

Specifically • number, Size and nature of the contract • Length • Remuneration of contract • Invitation to tender documents • Who provides regulation

Your request has been handled under the FOIA.

The MoJ does not hold any information in the scope of your request. This is because we are not the appropriate authority to contact on this subject. Dental contracts are an NHS responsibility in England and .

For prisons in England, you may therefore wish to contact NHS England as they might hold some of the information you requested. Their contact details are:

NHS England PO Box 16738 Redditch B97 9PT

Email: [email protected]

For , you may wish to contact the relevant Local Health Boards. Their contact details are as follows:

HMP Usk & Prescoed - Aneurin Bevan Health Board Headquarters St Cadoc's Hospital Lodge Road Caerleon Newport NP18 3XQ email: [email protected]

HMP Cardiff - Cardiff & Vale University Health Board Cardiff and Vale UHB Headquarters University Hospital of Wales (UHW) Heath Park Cardiff CF14 4XW HM Prison and HMP/YOI Parc - Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board FOIA Team, Headquarters, 1 Talbot Gateway, Port Talbot, SA12 7BR email: [email protected]

HM Prison Berwyn - Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board Information Governance Department Wrexham Maelor Hospital Croesnewydd Road Wrexham LL13 7TD email to: [email protected]

The FOIA does not oblige a public authority to create information to answer a request if the requested information is not held. The duty is to only provide the recorded information held.

Appeal Rights

If you are not satisfied with this response you have the right to request an internal review by responding in writing to one of the addresses below within two months of the date of this response. [email protected]

Disclosure Team, MoJ, 10.25, 102 Petty France, London, SW1H 9AJ

You do have the right to ask the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to investigate any aspect of your complaint. However, please note that the ICO is likely to expect internal complaints procedures to have been exhausted before beginning their investigation.

Yours sincerely,

Jack Harris Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service

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