Department of Health and Social Care: Consultants

(asked on 20th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of consultants advising his Department in each financial year from 2017-18 to 2020-21.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 2nd June 2020

The Department’s expenditure on consultancy services, for each of the available financial years is shown in the following table:

Financial Year

Consultancy Services (£000s)

2017-18

12,402

2018-19

19,829

Figures for 2019-20 are not available as they are still subject to audit. Figures for 2020-21 will be available in July 2021.

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