Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS Property Services has paid Jo Stones and Vince Lammas for consultancy services; and how their services were procured.

Vincent Lammas and Jo Stones were appointed under a contract with Attractor Consulting to work for NHS Property Services (NHSPS). The contract began prior to the operational date of NHSPS on 1 April 2013 and involved supporting the company to prepare its Human Resources, Payroll and Pension functions in preparation for taking on the employment of approximately 3,000 staff from the National Health Service upon the abolition of primary care trusts (PCTs). The contract ended in October 2014. NHSPS paid Attractor Consulting a total of £227,760 in 2013-14 and £123,360 in 2014-15, excluding VAT.

Attractor were selected on the basis of professional reputation given the urgency of the task and were retained after the operational date in order to maintain continuity, expertise and knowledge of the systems and company.