Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of management consultant fees in his Department in each of the last eight years.

Expenditure on consultancy services in the core Department, for each financial year since 2010 is shown in the following table. Data for 2017-18 will not be available until this year’s Annual Report and Accounts has been published.