Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2023 to Question 104233 on NHS: Protective Clothing, if he will list the (a) consultancy and (b) legal firms which were contracted as part of the personal protective equipment programme.

Consultancy firms contracted by the Department as part of the personal protective equipment programme are:

• 4C Associates Ltd;

• Accenture UK Ltd;

• Atamis Ltd;

• Bramble Hub Ltd previously Bramble CC Ltd;

• BSI Standard Ltd;

• Chanzo Ltd;

• Clarion Interpreting Ltd;

• Deloitte;

• Efficio Ltd;

• Ernst And Young;

• Global Connections (Scotland) Ltd;

• Insight Executive Group;

• Prestige Network Ltd;

• Pricewaterhousecooper LLP;

• The Kings Fund;

• Velindre NHS Trust; and

• McKinsey and Co Inc UK.

Legal firms contracted by the Department as part of the personal protective equipment programme are:

• Burges Salmon;

• TLT;

• DAC Beachcrift; and

• Pinsent Mason.