Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department paid the company Odgers Berndtson for recruitment services in each of the last eight years.

Figures for expenditure by the Department on Odgers Berndtson for the last eight financial years are shown in the following table. This is expenditure under the data category of ‘Professional Services’, which does not identify specific tasks such as a recruitment process.