Department of Health: Consultants
(asked on 14th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies spent on consultancy services in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 to date.
Total Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPB) spend on consultancy services in the year 2014-15 is shown in the table below. Data for 2015-16 will not be available until the accounts are published after the financial year end.
NDPB Consultancy Spend 2014-15 (excluding NHS England) | £000s |
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority | 447 |
Human Tissue Authority | 28 |
Monitor | 11,773 |
Care Quality Commission | 1,318 |
Professional Standards Authority for Health & Social Care | 0 |
Health & Social Care Information Centre | 1,526 |
Health Research Authority | 0 |
National Institute for Health & Care Excellence | 0 |
NDPB total | 15,092 |
Operating expenses, including expenditure on consultancy services, can be found on pages 148 and 149 of NHS England’s 2014/15 annual report:
http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/nhse-annual-report-2014-15.pdf
The figures provided are disclosed as expenditure on “consultancy services” in the administration and programme costs notes in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts.
Consultancy services are defined as “The provision to management of objective advice and assistance relating to strategy, structure, management or operations of an organisation in pursuit of its purposes and objectives. Such assistance will be provided outside the ‘business as usual’ environment when in-house skills are not available and will be of no essential consequence and time-limited. Services may include the identification of options with recommendations and/or assistance with (but not delivery of) the implementation of solutions.”