Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; 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.

The following table shows the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s expenditure on externally contracted consultancy services in each of the last five years.

Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on Contracts Finder, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder

Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, their individual agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on GOV.UK and follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.