Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2017 to Question 65687, how much of that procurement spending in each of those years related to the services of management consultants.

The Department’s procurement category spend relating to management consultants alone in each financial year 2010-11 to 2015-16 is reported as follows:

This table draws on data from the core Department receipted amounts against purchase orders, in line with Crown Commercial Service definitions. This is cash based spend that will differ from the reporting approach used for the Department’s annual accounts, which reflects accrued expenditure recorded in the general ledger of each body.