Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many contractors currently employed by his Department are paid £1,000 or more per day.

Since December 2013 the Department has used a Call off Contract from the Crown Commercial Services Contingent Labour One framework RM960 for the hire of temporary workers. The following information has been provided by the suppliers on the call off contract Capita and Brook Street in relation to temporary workers used by the Department.

Currently there are no temporary workers being paid daily £1,000 or more by the Department.

The Department also uses various suppliers from the Crown Commercial Service Non-Medical Non-Clinical framework RM971 for the recruitment and hire of temporary workers. There is no central data captured to show daily payments made to these workers.