FOI-02986

<p><em>Request</em></p>

<p><em>Please could I repeat the below request but change the years for the data to the last four full financial years? I.e:</em></p>

<ul>
  <li><em>2021-22</em></li>
  <li><em>2022-23</em></li>
  <li><em>2023-24</em></li>
  <li><em>2024-25</em></li>
</ul>

<p><em>Previous request:</em></p>

<p><em>(FOI-02027)</em></p>

<p><em>I would like to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act. Please could you provide the details of every UDA contract in England and Wales for the financial years</em></p>

<ul>
  <li><em>a) 2015-16,</em></li>
  <li><em>b) 2016-17,</em></li>
  <li><em>c) 2017-18,</em></li>
  <li><em>d) 2018-19 and</em></li>
  <li><em>e) 2019-20.</em></li>
</ul>

<p><em>(This has been updated to also add:</em></p>
<ul>
  <li><em>f) 2020-2021</em></li>
  <li><em>g) 2021-2022</em></li>
  <li><em>h) 2022-2023</em></li>
  <li><em>i) 2023-2024)</em></li>
</ul>

<p><em>Please include:</em></p>

<ul>
  <li><em>a) The contract number</em></li>
  <li><em>b) The name or company name of the practice</em></li>
  <li><em>c) The principal practice and correspondence address and postcode</em></li>
  <li><em>d) The commissioner name (if available. If not, please provide Government region).</em></li>
  <li><em>e) The total contracted UDA activity</em></li>
  <li><em>f) The total contracted UOA activity</em></li>
  <li><em>g) The total contracted UDA value</em></li>
  <li><em>h) The total contracted UOA value</em></li>
  <li><em>i) The total undelivered UDAs</em></li>
  <li><em>j) The total undelivered UOAs</em></li>
  <li><em>k) The number of UDAs handed back</em></li>
  <li><em>l) The number of UOAs handed back</em></li>
  <li><em>m) The value of UDAs handed back</em></li>
  <li><em>n) The value of UOAs handed back</em></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 7 July 2025.</strong></p>

<p><strong>On the 8 August 2025 you confirmed your request as follows:</strong></p>

<p><strong>By “handed back” I was referring to voluntary rebasing of NHS contracts.</strong></p>

<p><strong>We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).</strong></p>

<p><strong>Our response</strong></p>

<p><strong>Data for English contracts</strong></p>

<p>I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested and a copy of the information and notes explaining it is attached. </p>

<p>Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data. </p>

<p>In the data provided to you for FOI-02027, we have identified an error in which some of the information was missing, for which we apologise. The following columns had not been provided in the data:</p>

<ul>
  <li>Column c) The principal practice and correspondence address and postcode  </li>
  <li>Column k) The number of UDAs handed back   </li>
  <li>Column l) The number of UOAs handed back  </li>
  <li>Column m) The value of UDAs handed back  </li>
  <li>Column n) The value of UOAs handed back </li>
</ul>

<p>We have therefore provided updated data for the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 as well as the data for 2024-25.</p>

<p>We have provided current address for dental practices, therefore the address has only been included in the most recent dataset (Financial year 2024-2025).</p>

<p>Activity data refers to FP17s and FP17Ws attributed to the respective financial years. For example, 2024-2025 refers to FP17s and FP17Ws scheduled between April 2024 and June 2025, where the date of completion is between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025. </p>

<p>The reports contains the details from FP17s processed for the stated financial year in England.</p>

<ul>
  <li>The contract number – column A - ‘Contract Number’</li>
  <li>The name or company name of the practice - column B - ‘Provider Name’</li>
  <li>The principal practice and correspondence address and postcode - columns C to H (2024-2025 financial year only)</li>
  <li>The commissioner name  - ‘ICB Name’</li>
  <li>The total contracted UDA activity  - ‘UDA Contracted Target’</li>
  <li>The total contracted UOA activity - ‘UOA Contracted Target’</li>
  <li>The total contracted UDA value - can be calculated by multiplying UDA Contracted Target and UDA Rate</li>
  <li>The total contracted UOA value - can be calculated by multiplying columns UDOA Contracted Target and UOA Rate</li>
  <li>The total undelivered UDAs - can be calculated by subtracting UDA Adjusted Delivered from UDA Contracted Target</li>
  <li>The total undelivered UOAs - can be calculated by subtracting UOA Adjusted Delivered from UOA Contracted Target</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Data for Welsh Contracts</strong></p>

<p>I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds some of the information you have requested.</p>

<p>The NHSBSA does not hold information on the number of UDAs and UOAs handed back or decommissioned in Wales. This would be held by the Local Health Board (LHB). </p>

<p><strong>Financial years 2021-22 to 2023-24</strong></p>

<p>The data for the financial years 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 were provided in response to FOI-02027.</p>

<p>Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.  </p>

<p>The information you requested is available from FOI-02027 - Datasets - Open Data Portal </p>

<p>Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21</a> </p>

<p><strong>Financial year 2024-25</strong></p>

<p>A copy of the requested information and notes explaining it is attached. </p>

<p>The report contains the details from FP17Ws processed for the period stated 2024-2025 in Wales. </p>

<p>Please note the following: </p>

<ol>
  <li>If there is only one treatment location recorded in CoMPASS, then this will be assigned as the PP&C address.  </li>
  <li>If at the 30th of the month there is only one live treatment location, then this will be assigned as the PP&C address.  </li>
  <li>If there are multiple open treatment locations for the contract, the treatment location with the earliest submission of FP17W/O activity will be used.  </li>
  <li>If there are no open treatment locations at the 30th of the month, the historic principal practice address from POL will be used.  </li>
  <li>If there are no open treatment locations at the 30th of the month, the address with the most FP17W/O activity will be used.  </li>
  <li>If there are no open treatment locations but one existed and had associated FP17W/O activity when the contract was live, then this address will be used.  </li>
  <li>Contracts that have an end date before 01/04/2013 are assigned a &lt;Blank&gt; address.  </li>
  <li>For a new contract where no treatment location addresses have
 

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