Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's contract with McKinsey to work on an ongoing review of NHS technology leadership, how many of the consultancy's staff are working on that contract; and what daily rates are paid to those consultants.

The Contract Award Notices for contracts awarded to McKinsey for their services to the Department across the Test and Trace Programme have been or will be published on Contracts Finder. As part of our strategic workforce planning activities the number of consultants engaged is constantly under review and subject to change.

The pay rates of individual consultants engaged from each supplier is commercially sensitive information. However, the payment rates are as per the Crown Commercial Service Framework rate card with discounts attained depending on value and length of role.