Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department (a) has spent and (b) estimates it will spend on the judicial review proceedings launched by the Good Law Project regarding the £22.6m contract awarded by his Department to Bunzl for personal procurement equipment procurement in April 2020.

The Department has so far spent £722,999, excluding VAT in direct costs, which is estimated to increase to approximately around £1.2 million before VAT.