Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered on 26 January 2023.
Wes Streeting
Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much from the public purse the NHS in England has spent on management consultants in each of the last five years.
Will Quince
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The following table shows the expenditure on consultancy from 2017/18 to 2020/21 covering NHS England, NHS England group and NHS Provider Trusts. NHS Trusts are required to disclose expenditure on consultancy, but this cannot be broken down further into types of consultancy. The 2021/22 data is not yet available and will be published shortly.
Organisation | 2020/21 | 2019/20 | 2018/19 | 2017/18 |
NHS England | £13.6 million | £2.5 million | £8.7 million | £26.6 million |
NHS England Group | £51.6 million | £45.8 million | £64.1 million | £85.5 million |
NHS providers | £234.0 million | £199.4 million | £227.0 million | £247.5 million |
Source:
NHS Commissioning Board Annual Report and Accounts for years 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19 and 2017/18. This includes expenditure by Commissioning Support Units but excludes Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).
Consolidated NHS provider accounts for years 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19 and 2017/18. This covers both NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts.
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