Sir / Madam, I work for ?????? and am undertaking some work at City Hospital in Birmingham for the Healthcare Procurement Consortium looking at Schedule IX. I am covered under a confidentiality agreement with the Department of Health which I can produce on request, although I believe this request can be undertaken under the freedom of information act guidelines. I understand there may be a charge for this data, if so please indicate what this will be at your earliest opportunity. I look forward to confirming this request shortly. I would like to make the following data request: In summary I require all FP10 spend within all the categories that fall under Schedule IX for the PCTs listed below for the period Financial Year 2004 /2005 (1st April 2004 to 31st of March 2005) I would like this data at line level, that is lists of the products under each category, so the data would indicate 3 plastic bag clamps at ?5 each, total cost ?15 for Coventry PCT. If in doubt please provide me with the most detail that you have in your systems. I would like the return to be in a format I can use with Excel or Access. I expect the return to contain the following fields: PCT Name eg Coventry PCT Schedule IX high level category eg Stoma Appliances Part IXC Sub category eg Bag Closures Manufacturer eg B Bruan Appliance / Item description eg Biotrol Closure Clamps FP10 Order No. eg F00728A NHSLA order number eg if the item can be bought from NHSLA and there is a matching order number Manufacturers product code eg if the manufacturers product code is listed in your data Units in pack eg 10 Quantity purchased eg 6 Price paid eg ?1.10 Total Cost eg ?6.60 The PCTs I require this information for are: Coventry PCT Hereford PCT North Warwickshire PCT Oldbury & Smethwick PCT Redditch & Bromsgrove PCT Rowley Regis & Tipton PCT Rugby PCT South Warwickshire PCT South Worcestershire PCT Wednesbury & West Bromwich PCT Wyre Forest PCT Thanks in advance and please call me with any questions,