Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much his Department has spent on external management consultants in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021; and which projects or work areas in each of those financial years required the largest proportion of expenditure on support from consultants.

Figures for consultancy spend are included each year in the Department's annual report. The corresponding figure for FY2021-22 is expected to be published by the end of July 2022.

Across the last three financial years, the top area for consultancy spend has been on the Building Safety Programme, primarily on support services for delivery of new cladding remediation funds.