To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.
Answered on
29 November 2024
The following table shows the amount the Department spent on consultancy fees, each year since 2021:
Year | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 |
Spend | £4,092,000 | £252,815,000 | £188,978,000 |
Source: the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts within the Accountability Report, in the table on expenditure on Consultancy, Agency and Temporary workers.
The value for 2020/21 has been amended from previous Parliamentary Questions as a prior year adjustment for 2020/21 was reflected in the 2021/22 Annual Report and Accounts to account for £17,365,000 for the vaccine taskforce, which was transferred from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, amending the value for 2020/21 from £171,613,000 to £188,978,000. The table excludes the date for 2023/24. Fully audited figures for 2023/24 will be available upon the publication of the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts later this year.