Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on off-payroll engagements in each financial year since 2019-20.
The Department collects information centrally on the numbers of off-payroll engagements in line with the mandatory disclosure requirements for reporting in the Annual Report and Accounts.
The Department does not collect all the information that would be required to address this question centrally and it is considered the time and resource required to do so retrospectively would be disproportionate.
The Department will consider the scope to expand the data collected on off-payroll engagements from 2023-24 to enable analysis of this type to be provided in the future.