Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in each of the last five years.
The DWP consultancy spend for the financial years ending 2018 through to 2022 is shown below.
2017/18 £7,200,259
2018/19 £4,446,169
2019/20 £4,570,665
2020/21 £1,284,861
2021/22 £1,041,058