Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many consultants his Department has hired in each year since 2016; and what the cost to the public purse of that process has been.
The Department contracts for the delivery of consultancy services from companies and does not keep central records of the number nor the identities of individual management consultants or staff used to deliver services for each contract to the Department.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr Nigel Evans) on 25 February to Question 221999.