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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 7 September 2026, to Question 20948, on Civil Servants: Training, whether (a) external consultants or (b) specialist arms of consultancy firms are advising on the established of the National School of Government and Public Services.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 7 September 2026, to Question 20948, on Civil Servants: Training, whether (a) external consultants or (b) specialist arms of consultancy firms are advising on the established of the National School of Government and Public Services.
The Cabinet Office used two existing supplier frameworks to support the establishment of the National School of Government and Public Services.
Through the Learning Frameworks contracts, we engaged support to help us establish the National School as an organisation, including its operating model. Through the Government Communication Service call-off contract, we engaged Accenture Song to develop the brand proposition, visual identity and brand guidelines for the National School, and Omnicom to design a Civil Service-wide learning and development pilot campaign to drive a culture of learning and innovation following the National School's launch.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Provision of Future Civil Service contract awarded to GuideHouse Europe Limited of 2 July 2026, reference CCCC26A06, if she will set out the (a) full terms of reference and project specification for the work and (b) project specifications...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Provision of Future Civil Service contract awarded to GuideHouse Europe Limited of 2 July 2026, reference CCCC26A06, if she will set out the (a) full terms of reference and project specification for the work and (b) project specifications...
The Future Civil Service Programme has an ambitious agenda to transform the civil service, to build capability, improve talent management and ensure staff have the skills and tools they need to drive government priorities in every postcode of the UK. The Contract was awarded on 2 July 2026 to Guidehouse Europe Limited to support the aims of the Programme.
Responsibility for selecting, deploying, and managing subcontractors rests with the lead supplier, which remains accountable for delivering the contract requirements.
All contracts are awarded in line with relevant guidance. The contract was awarded via a further competition through the Government Commercial Agency’s Commercial Agreement:Management Consultancy Framework 4 (MCF4) RM6309 Lot 2: Strategy & Policy.
The tender participants can be viewed here:
https://www.gca.gov.uk/agreements/RM6309:2/lot-suppliers
The contract is governed by the RM6309 Core Terms of the Commercial Agreement which can be found in the documents section of the commercial agreement page here: https://www.gca.gov.uk/agreements/RM6309
To ask His Majesty's Government how much the Home Office spent on consultancy fees in relation to their Resources for asylum seekers in the UK leaflets and posters.
To ask His Majesty's Government how much the Home Office spent on consultancy fees in relation to their Resources for asylum seekers in the UK leaflets and posters.
The Home Office spent approximately £2,400 in consultancy fees in relation to the Resources for asylum seekers in the UK leaflets and posters.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Action 25 of the National Cancer Plan, which NHS trusts have been identified as requiring additional oncology training places; and what proportion of those areas are in rural versus non-rural communities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Action 25 of the National Cancer Plan, which NHS trusts have been identified as requiring additional oncology training places; and what proportion of those areas are in rural versus non-rural communities.
Reducing inequalities in cancer care is a priority for this Government. As part of the National Cancer Plan for England, the Government committed to creating additional training places for cancer consultants in areas with the greatest workforce need, including rural and coastal communities. NHS England is currently working through implementation arrangements.
Work is progressing on the expansion of 4,500 resident doctor posts, and is currently for the initial 1,000, although it is not intended specifically to address Action 25 set out in the National Cancer Plan. NHS England uses an allocations methodology that recommends the establishment of additional posts in geographies that are relatively under-resourced. As rural geographies tend to have fewer postgraduate medical training posts per need-adjusted population than urban ones, such geographies would be prioritised for expansion when we increased numbers of training opportunities.
NHS England is currently working with regional colleagues, Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education and trusts to identify additional resident doctor posts. NHS England cannot yet confirm how many of these additional posts will be in clinical oncology or medical oncology, as trusts have yet to send a complete list of expressions of interest in each training programme. Following receipt of the expressions of interest supporting the initial 1,000 posts, we will be able to assess that expansion and provide additional advice for the expansion of the remaining 3,500 posts which will follow in 2028 and 2029.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what figures does the Department hold of central government expenditure on consultancy spending in each year since 2023-24.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what figures does the Department hold of central government expenditure on consultancy spending in each year since 2023-24.
Each Central Government Department publishes details of their consultancy expenditure within their individual Annual Report and Accounts.
Based on these reports, in 2023/24, Government spending on consultancy including NHS was £1,224m. In 2024/25, this figure stood at £1,095m.
Not all Departments have published their Annual Report and Accounts for 2025/26 so it is not possible to provide a total spending figure for that year at this stage.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her department has made of the adequacy of the number of specialist training spaces required to address the low number of Consultant Neurologists in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her department has made of the adequacy of the number of specialist training spaces required to address the low number of Consultant Neurologists in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the shortage of Consultant Neurologists on patient access to consistent and timely Multiple Sclerosis care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the shortage of Consultant Neurologists on patient access to consistent and timely Multiple Sclerosis care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust regarding the provision of additional resources to address shortages of senior consultants following the suspension of maternity services at North Devon District Hospital.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust regarding the provision of additional resources to address shortages of senior consultants following the suspension of maternity services at North Devon District Hospital.
The situation in North Devon in recent weeks has been unacceptable. As the Prime Minister told the House on 2 September, we expect the situation in North Devon to be resolved in the coming weeks.
The local National Health Service trust has set out a provisional timeline for reopening birthing services which is available at the following link:
https://www.royaldevon.nhs.uk/maternity-and-obstetrics/nddh-birth-services-temporary-changes/
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the Department's annual budget allocation is for procuring external consultancy services in each year since 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the Department's annual budget allocation is for procuring external consultancy services in each year since 2015.
To ask His Majesty's Government how much (1) NHS England, and (2) the Department of Health and Social Care, have spent on external bodies, including management consultants and advisory firms, to support or provide advice on the current NHS reorganisation and structural changes in the (a) 2024–25 financial year, (b)...
To ask His Majesty's Government how much (1) NHS England, and (2) the Department of Health and Social Care, have spent on external bodies, including management consultants and advisory firms, to support or provide advice on the current NHS reorganisation and structural changes in the (a) 2024–25 financial year, (b)...
The Department publishes details of its annual expenditure on external consultants on a regular basis in the Department’s annual report and accounts.
In the 2024/25 annual report, published in December 2025, the Department disclosed that it had spent a total of £2.0 million on external consultancy in that financial year, compared to £3.9 million in 2023-24. Figures for 2025/26 and 2026/27 will be published in the normal way in due course in the relevant annual reports.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the additional consultant time required to support Advice and Guidance requests.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the additional consultant time required to support Advice and Guidance requests.
The Advice and Guidance (A&G) model helps ensure that patients receive an appropriate and timely assessment, with clear next steps, in primary and community settings. Where specialist advice supports ongoing management in the community, patients can often be managed more quickly and closer to home, benefiting from earlier specialist input.
Under this Government, the A&G model has therefore supported millions of patients to receive care in the right place without unnecessarily having to join elective waiting lists, alongside the 2,000 extra general practitioners (GPs) we have recruited since July 2024. This is one of the reasons 77% of patients are now reporting a ‘good’ overall experience with their GP.
Under A&G, the clinical threshold for a referral remains unchanged, and GPs should continue to make a clinical decision to refer for specialist care where that is in the patient’s best interest. We will continue to assess the safety of the model and support providers to implement it effectively, and we have already commissioned an external evaluation of A&G, and Single Point of Access processes.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the lobbying guidance to NDPBs on obtaining permission from the Cabinet Office to use PR or marketing consultants (a) only applies to spending above the Cabinet office Commercial Assurance Review or Approval process or (b) applies to all expenditure and contracts...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the lobbying guidance to NDPBs on obtaining permission from the Cabinet Office to use PR or marketing consultants (a) only applies to spending above the Cabinet office Commercial Assurance Review or Approval process or (b) applies to all expenditure and contracts...
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to expand the number of specialist training posts and consultant posts in clinical immunology, in light of the Royal College of Pathologists' Clinical Immunology Workforce Report 2025, published in September 2025.
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to expand the number of specialist training posts and consultant posts in clinical immunology, in light of the Royal College of Pathologists' Clinical Immunology Workforce Report 2025, published in September 2025.
On 29 June 2026, the British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee announced that their membership had voted to accept an offer from the Government to resolve their dispute on pay and jobs. The deal for resident doctors includes the introduction of up to 4,500 specialty training places over the next three years, including 1,000 next year, 250 of which will be starting in February 2027. Further information on which specialties will receive these places and when will be set out in due course.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, further to the response of 6 July to Question 14187, whether the Department made any payments to the Causeway Initiative for Peace-building and Conflict Resolution International (otherwise known as The Causeway Initiative).
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, further to the response of 6 July to Question 14187, whether the Department made any payments to the Causeway Initiative for Peace-building and Conflict Resolution International (otherwise known as The Causeway Initiative).
The Ministry of Defence has not been able to trace any further records of payments made to Jeffrey Donaldson for any purpose
The Ministry of Defence has not been able to trace any payments made to the Causeway Initiative for Peace-building and Conflict Resolution International for any purpose.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2026 to Question 14187, were any payments made to the then hon. Member for Lagan Valley (a) in respect of peace process work in (i) Northern Ireland and (ii) Columbia and (b) in respect of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2026 to Question 14187, were any payments made to the then hon. Member for Lagan Valley (a) in respect of peace process work in (i) Northern Ireland and (ii) Columbia and (b) in respect of...
The Ministry of Defence has not been able to trace any further records of payments made to Jeffrey Donaldson for any purpose
The Ministry of Defence has not been able to trace any payments made to the Causeway Initiative for Peace-building and Conflict Resolution International for any purpose.
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 29 April (HL16567), whether the National Consultant Information Programme (1) is publicly accessible to patients, (2) includes data on consultants practising in the independent sector, and (3) records the practising privileges held by consultants; and what assessment...
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 29 April (HL16567), whether the National Consultant Information Programme (1) is publicly accessible to patients, (2) includes data on consultants practising in the independent sector, and (3) records the practising privileges held by consultants; and what assessment...
The National Consultant Information Programme (NCIP) is publicly accessible to patients on the Getting It Right First Time website.
The NCIP portal is a free data platform containing consultant and provider-level activity and outcomes data for over 500 procedures in 13 surgical specialties. It covers National Health Service practices, NHS funded work in the independent sector, and privately funded work carried out in the NHS. Over time, the ambition is to add independent sector data, to provide a single repository of whole practice. Currently, patients are not able to access this data.
NCIP allows consultants in 13 surgical specialties to access their individual outcomes data, for personal learning, clinical governance, and appraisals. NCIP does not record practising privileges in the independent sector.
NCIP is a critical part of the response to the Paterson Inquiry, which recommended that there should be a single repository of the whole practice of consultants across England. By sharing high-quality outcome data, consultants, their appraisers, and responsible officers can compare outcomes for their practice or use peer review to improve their performance in a way that is measurable and objective, leading to better safety and efficiency across the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the requirement for consultant radiologists in the the NHS as of 1 June 2026 and what number were employed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the requirement for consultant radiologists in the the NHS as of 1 June 2026 and what number were employed.
NHS England publishes monthly information on the composition of the workforce employed by National Health Service trusts and integrated care boards in England. This includes information on the number of consultant radiologists. The information can be found at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics
Information on the number of doctors by grade and specialty can be found for each month in the file ‘NHS HCHS Workforce Statistics, Trusts and core organisations – data table, [date]’ on worksheet ‘4’.
No specific central assessment has been made of the requirement for consultant radiologists in the NHS, with decisions on the provision of local services being managed by individual NHS service providers and commissioners.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, further to the response of 6 July to Question 14187, whether the Department made any payments to the Causeway Initiative for Peace-building and Conflict Resolution International, otherwise known as The Causeway Initiative.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, further to the response of 6 July to Question 14187, whether the Department made any payments to the Causeway Initiative for Peace-building and Conflict Resolution International, otherwise known as The Causeway Initiative.
Details of Government contracts are routinely published on the ContractsFinder and Find-a-Tender Service websites.
Details of payments over £25,000 made by Government departments are routinely published via transparency releases on GOV.UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2026 to Question14187, have payments been made to any other politicians in respect of consultancy work.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2026 to Question14187, have payments been made to any other politicians in respect of consultancy work.
With the exception of salary paid to the Secretary of State for Defence, and Defence Ministers, it is not possible to identify whether any other direct payments have been made to current or former Members of Parliament or other politicians as a cohort. Whether the recipient of any type of payment for any reason is a Member of Parliament or other politician, is not centrally recorded and could only be provide at disproportionate cost.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Cabinet Office guidance permits arm's length bodies to use public funds to appoint external public affairs or lobbying consultancies to engage with ministers, government departments or Parliament.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Cabinet Office guidance permits arm's length bodies to use public funds to appoint external public affairs or lobbying consultancies to engage with ministers, government departments or Parliament.
The Cabinet Office does not issue specific guidance on this matter. However, the Code of Conduct for Board Members of Public Bodies states that ‘it will always be an improper use of public funds for public bodies to employ consultants or other companies to lobby Parliament, government or political parties.’ Responsibility for ensuring compliance with these standards rests with the Accounting Officer of each arm's length body and their respective sponsoring department.