Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS Counter Fraud Authority has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if he 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 NHS Counter Fraud Authority has not incurred expenditure on external consultancy.