Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was spent on off-payroll engagements earning more than £245 per day in financial years (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22 and (d) 2022-23.

The Department collects information centrally on the numbers of off payroll engagements in line with the mandatory disclosure requirements for reporting in Annual Report and Accounts. However, the Department does not centrally collect the range of information that would be required to address these questions, and it is considered that the time and resource required to do so retrospectively, including analysing thousands of contracts over a four year period, would incur disproportionate costs.

The Department will however expand the data collected on off payroll engagements from 2023-24 to enable analysis of this type to be provided in the future.