Question follow-through · 15512
Department of Health and Social Care: Consultants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 29 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in each year since 2021.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Nov 2024
Answer published
The following table shows the amount the Department spent on consultancy fees, each year since 2021:Year2022/232021/222020/21Spend£4,092,000£252,815,000£188,978,000Source: the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts within the Accountability Report, in th...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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