Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the UK Health Security Agency has spent on external consultants in each year since its establishment; and if they will publish a breakdown of (a) the amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) the name of each consultancy contracted, (c) the specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.

Fully audited data on the UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) expenditure on external consultants since its formation on 1 October 2021 will be available later this year. The UKHSA is required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.