Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of consultants advising his Department in each financial year from 2017-18 to 2020-21.
The Department’s expenditure on consultancy services, for each of the available financial years is shown in the following table:
Financial Year | Consultancy Services (£000s) |
2017-18 | 12,402 |
2018-19 | 19,829 |
Figures for 2019-20 are not available as they are still subject to audit. Figures for 2020-21 will be available in July 2021.