Department of Health and Social Care: Consultants
(asked on 16th July 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to external consultants in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
The question has been interpreted as requesting the level of consultancy spend by the core Department. As such the Department’s expenditure on consultancy services, for each of the last five financial years is as follows:
Financial Year | Consultancy Services (£000s) |
2017-18 | 12,402 |
2016-17 | 4,485 |
2015-16 | 7,657 |
2014-15 | 8,691 |
2013-14 | 588 |
The Department utilises consultancy services where it is necessary and prudent to do so. The increase in spend between 2016-17 and 2017-18 relates to programmes of a short term nature that require specialist support not available within the Department. These resources primarily support development and implementation of a new supply chain model to produce procurement efficiency and value for money for NHS services and the Corporate Services Improvement Programme.