Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had any (a) financial contract and (b) meetings with (i) Clifford Chance LLP, (ii) FTI Consulting and (iii) Fenchurch Advisory Partners in the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

The Department has recorded expenditure between July 2019 and March 2021 with Clifford Chance LLP under a call-off contract from a Crown Commercial Services framework contract for legal work involved in exiting an IT contract. No expenditure is recorded against FTI Consulting or Fenchurch Advisory Partners.

Establishing whether officials at the Department have held meetings with these companies could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Details of ministerial meetings are published quarterly and can be found on GOV.UK.