Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much her Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
Answered by Will Quince
The following table shows expenditure on taxis for Ministers and civil servants in each year since 2020. The information on Ministerial travel in 2022 refers to the period to 31 July.
| Ministers | Civil servants |
2020 | £182.81 | £11,779.53 |
2021 | Nil | £5,619.84 |
2022 | £18.30 | £7,674.80 |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of (a) the level of podiatry vacancy rates in the NHS in Hemsworth constituency and (b) the potential impact of these vacancies on patient treatment for diabetic foot complications.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows Departmental expenditure on temporary and agency staff in 2020/21 and 2019/20. This includes agency retainer fees which are not recorded separately. Fully audited data for 2021-22 will be available later this year.
2020/21 | 2019/20 |
£542,021,000 | £14,842,000 |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The total cost of commercial flights taken by DHSC Officials are shown in the following table:
DHSC Officials (staff) |
|
Calendar Year | Value |
2020 | £13,391 |
2021 | £14,826 |
2022 up to the 31st May | £49,061 |
Spend on Ministerial commercial travel is published quarterly on gov.uk.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money in total was paid by the National Health Service in England to private contractors in 2021.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information is not collected in the format required and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Department’s expenditure on advertising is collected by financial year. In 2020/21, this spending was £7,079,778 and £28,597,578 in 2021/22.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information requested is collected by financial year. The following table shows expenditure on externally contracted consultancy services in the core Department in 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. Fully audited data for 2021/22 will be available later this year.
2020/21 | 2019/20 |
£171,613,000 | £15,203,000 |
A table showing the suppliers contracted for each consultancy service in 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 is attached.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Department's expenditure on hospitality was £4,984 is 2019/20 and £66,322 in 2020/21. Data for 2021/22 is currently subject to audit for publication in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts later this year.