- Smart Healthcare, Monday 18 January 2010 15.35 GMT
DLA Piper received £28.9m between April 2002 and March 2009, while Allen & Overy charged £10.3m between April 2002 and 2006, when it stopped providing advice for the the programme.
Health minister Mike O'Brien said the two firms received the money for legal and commercial support on 14 January 2010, but that it was not possible to identify the payments made for drafting NPfIT contracts, which had been requested by his Conservative shadow Stephen O'Brien.
In answering an earlier question in December, the minister said that the two firms were appointed in December 2002 "to participate in the drafting and negotiation of contracts which formed the National Programme for IT", which were entered into between October 2003 and January 2004.
These were the five original local service provider contracts, as well as the national Spine, N3 broadband network and appointment e-booking deals, the last now known as Choose and Book. These were worth £5.7bn in total when awarded.
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